2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Learn the art of living in the desert from a camel; learn the art of jumping from a kangaroo! The person who does the job best is also the best teacher in that job!

There is no path, no man or no book in the world that can teach you nothing! The point is, what will they teach you?

You must question everything you learned because you should know that no matter what country you live in, you will often be taught stupid things!

If you want to teach something to water, you must be first a river, a lake, an ocean; you must be rain and flood, ice and hail, rime and snow! You must be all of them! But not enough! You must be something more, only then you can teach something to water!

With high awareness, everything you see is your teacher; with low awareness, nothing is your teacher because for things to teach you something, you must first be aware of their existence!

Education our youth is far more than data collection.

Making mistakes allows us the opportunity to find what works and what works.

Multiculturalism compels educators to recognize the narrow boundaries that have shaped the way knowledge is shared in the classroom. It forces us all to recognize our complicity in accepting and perpetuating biases of any kind.

Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else's image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.