2,279 Quotes About Teaching

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

It doesn't matter the materials but what you do and how you interact. Relationships are the most important in the art of teaching. A school can have the most beautiful "stuff" but it's the care and commitment of a teacher. What matters most is a true teacher with the real stuff inside and helping others discover that real stuff inside themselves.

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.

There’s a distinct difference between confidence and boasting arrogance; when a problem hits a patch of difficult, the arrogant disappear but the confident remains in the fight.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

​Until your inner teacher wakes up, all worldly teachings are worthless.

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old lady. Reciting, her voice took on resonance and firmness, it rang with the old fervor, with ferocity even. She was teaching me one more, almost her last, lesson: emotions do not grow old. I knew that I would feel as she did, and I do.