2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.