2,279 Quotes About Teaching

To reach a child's mind, first reach a child's heart.

Real education changes you on the inside.

The wonderful thing about learning is that you deprive no one else by taking what you learn. The wonderful thing about teaching is that you don’t lose what you give away. Teaching is also the only gift you can give that will live on into eternity. Something you teach becomes another’s who teaches it to another and to another, and on and on and on.

It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

Many people are not ready to pay for advice they can use, so the few that do, break boundaries and soar higher.

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.

Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.

But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data

...a school's worth should be measured not by how its students perform on standardized tests but by how well they function as adult graduates of the school...