2,279 Quotes About Teaching

One who is eager to teach must be eager to learn.

The Woodcraft Folk is a youth organisation, a bit like Brownies or Scouts but it mixes boys and girls together and has an arty, bohemian vibe. [...] We call the adults in charge ‘leaders’ and address them by their Christian names – this is the first time I'm allowed to call an adult by their first name. At Woodcraft children are treated like people, not half-formed irrelevant creatures, we are consulted on every decision that's made.

What can a little town teach you? It can teach you how a little place already contains the whole features of the entire world!

Learn if you want to teach; teach if you want to learn.

Let children wander aimlessly around ideas.

Hazte cargo de mí, ayúdame a sacar lo mejor de mí mismo, dame tu tiempo que es para mí; dame a ti mismo, respondiéndome con tu amor.

Don't make me regret taking you on. If I get irritated, I might drown you a little bit.

Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?

Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her or his potential, and to pursue a subject of considerable importance without restrictions imposed by anything except the inherent demands of the material.