2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!

You can never stop being a teacher. It is the core responsibility of a leader.

He taught me to run high on my toes. I will always remember his words: run proud & remember you are alive.

More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt.

I have been given the rare opportunity to teach Jiu Jitsu for a living. This is a privilege that I wake up everyday grateful for, and a responsibility that I hold dearly. I understand how rare it is to be employed through a labor you genuinely love, and one which can be used as a vehicle for positive change in the lives of others. Even rarer still, I am often reminded of the quality of Jiu Jitsu I have learned, and the opportunity to have learned it.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts).

Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it -- teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm, as if you learned it only yesterday.

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.