2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.

When someone is attacking you, they are coming to you for advice.

Give a man a teacher and he'll learn many a thing.Teach a man to learn and he'll learn from everything.

Just as novice musicians must spend many hours practicing basic skills like playing scales or mastering difficult passages--and frequently do so in the presence of their teacher, receiving immediate and individualized feedback--so must our students spend many hours practicing the basic intellectual skills of our discipline.

The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

He wondered if they knew fear, and thought that maybe if they didn’t, he could teach them it, like he’d taught manners to the foul-tongued and the red-handed.

We must become what we wish to teach.

Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?

-You never stop teaching, do you?-This is life, Yrene. We never stop learning. Even at my age.