Quotes About Learning

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.