2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Education is the realization of hope for the future.

They're horrible little creatures. All snot and smelly feet and pestering questions.""Then why did you go into teaching?""It was either that or sit at home with Mother all day. I picked the lesser of two evils.

The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.

[...] it is rare for aman who teaches to know his subject thoroughly;for if he studies it as he ought, he has in mostcases no time left in which to teach it. [...]

Life is the greatest teacher because it educates even those who really hate to learn.

For me, education—both teaching and learning—is about building relationships and developing rapport with students, with parents, and with faculty.

An effective educator who can embrace the ever-changing teaching and learning environment, maintain resilience and strength under this pressure, dynamically participate in the development of new practices, and continue to foster a love of learning stands a greater chance of captivating students and appealing to their needs.

Teaching mathematics, like teaching any art, requires the ability to inspire the student. Inspiration requires marketing, and marketing requires stirring communication.

Certain things need to be done again and again in life, but those things can be learned only in context, not as an abstraction. Different contexts must be provided in order to motivate students and to provide real world skills that will be remembered, not because they were studied and tested but because they were practicied again and again.