2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

You learn a lot by reading and even more by sharing.

That’s what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.

...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

Working at one of the largest university teaching hospitals in Europe proved to be instrumental in developing the medical diagnosis and treatment of Magee’s Disease (MD).

[S]cience has contributed a great deal to war and violence, and people well trained in science are sometimes not entirely rational and are even dogmatic. We have to find a way to teach reflectively, not just scientifically.

I have heard the predictable slew of insults, threats, epithets, and curses. Underneath all these, I hear their fear. They don’t want to hurt me, though I may serve as a stand-in for a man who they do want to hurt. They want to scare me because fear is the only way they have learned to feel powerful.

Each pain makes you stronger; each betrayal makes you more intelligent, each disappointment makes you more skillful, and each experience makes you wiser. God gave you the capacity to never stop learning. Therefore, never stop learning because life never stops teaching.

watch out for schools that promise your kids will "experience success." I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.