2,279 Quotes About Teaching

You can't make me be nice.You can't make me be good.You can't make me believe.But your example, your kindness, your patience and love will affect me perhaps enough that eventually I may choose to do those things.

Disobedience and obedience are the snakes and ladders in the game of Guruism.

A questo mondo esiste uno studio del tutto diverso da quello che si fa a scuola. [...] Non consiste nel fornire la risposta che ci è stata insegnata, o nel rivaleggiare con gli altri per essere migliore, ma nell'afferrare le risposte scoprendole da sé, a una a una. Consiste nel creare la strada per la nostra crescita così come siamo, a modo nostro. Scoprire. Continuare a scoprire per tutta la vita la propria crescita. L'apprendimento è crescere se stessi in questo.

Teaching and learning begins with your heart and brain. Those two things sustain it too.

You haven’t made a fire till it has burned. You haven’t made a dollar till it’s earned. And no teaching has transpired If the child has not acquired. You haven’t taught a child till he has learned.

To become an expert, be ready to ask the dumbest question.

So how do you go about teaching them something new? By mixing what they know with what they don’t know. Then, when they see vaguely in their fog something they recognize, they think, ‘Ah, I know that.’ And then it’s just one more step to, ‘Ah, I know the whole thing.’ And their mind thrusts forward into the unknown and they begin to recognize what they didn’t know before and they increase their powers of understanding.

The person who impedes your progress may unknowingly be teaching you how to effectively handle adversity.

When you teach, you learn.