Teaching Quotes


He who does not research has nothing to teach. Proverbs Teaching 289
Teachers have three loves love of learning love of learners and the love of bringing the first two loves together. Scott Hayden Teaching 256
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble. Mark Twain Teaching 200
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. Ralph Waldo Emerson Teaching 198
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei Teaching 196
Those who know how to think need no teachers. Mahatma Gandhi Teaching 189
Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning observe carefully what children do and then if you have understood well perhaps teaching will be different from before. Loris Malaguzzi Teaching 183
In teaching others we teach ourselves. Proverbs Teaching 176
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. Colleen Wilcox Teaching 175
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark Van Doren Teaching 164
Without language one cannot talk to people and understand them one cannot share their hopes and aspirations grasp their history appreciate their poetry or savor their songs. Nelson Mandela Teaching 158
Evil prevails when good people do nothing. Erin Gruwell Teaching 128
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth. Dan Rather Teaching 119
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. Confucius Teaching 110
To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert Teaching 109
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. Soren Kierkegaard Teaching 99
He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. Source Unknown Teaching 98
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then even the holiest of words are only words. Deng Ming Dao Teaching 98
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. Plato Teaching 98
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. George Bernard Shaw Teaching 94
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. Frederick William Robertson Teaching 91
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. Walter Bagehot Teaching 87
The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array. Jeremy Bentham Teaching 86
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another. Benjamin Jowett Teaching 85
To be agreeable in society you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. Talleyrand Teaching 85
There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory. H. Ross Perot Teaching 84
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. John Jay Chapman Teaching 84
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost Teaching 83
Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile. William Cowper Teaching 79
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. Michel de Montaigne Teaching 78
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas Carruthers Teaching 77
Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse. Immermann Teaching 77
Mentor and coach others whenever you can. Your teaching will deepen your own learning. Lee J. Colan Teaching 76
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. Source Unknown Teaching 75
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. Henry S. Canby Teaching 75
Never offer to teach a fish to swim. Proverbs Teaching 74
We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. Robert H. Shaffer Teaching 74
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. Fawn M. Brodie Teaching 74
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. Will Durant Teaching 72
The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything except sarcasm or fear. Tanith Lee Teaching 72
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared...to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society. Shirley Hufstedler Teaching 71
But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God Julian of Norwich Teaching 71
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you dont believe that watch an illiterate adult try to do it. John Steinbeck Teaching 71
We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. Source Unknown Teaching 71
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. M. Russell Ballard Teaching 71
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams Teaching 70
I never teach my pupils I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein Teaching 70
Teaching has been for me an education Lord knows what it has been for my students. Howard Nemerov Teaching 69
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. William Osler Teaching 69
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning. John Dewey Teaching 69

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