2,279 Quotes About Teaching

A relationship is a process. If you have nothing to learn - you have a slave to teach. 's why schools are effective.

Feed two birds with one crumb.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

The task for parents and teachers is not to teach, it is how to inspire the people of youth to find their desire to learn.

You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn't feel right. Trust your instincts and listen to your inner-voice — it's trying to protect you.

Bruner discusses the need for teachers to understand that children should want to study for study's own sake, for learnings's sake, not for the sake of good grades or examination success. The curriculum should, in other words, be interesting. (Yes, it sounds too obvious even to say, but sometimes the emphasis on content has trumped all other considerations, including that of making learning interesting.)

No one ever pays to learn the most important things.

Sometimes, you just can't help yourself but to learn quickly when being taught by the opposite gender.

Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine (the Greeks had watered theirs down to keep their heads lucid), and, last but not least, six or seven eager and receptive youths seated at one’s feet.