Quotes About Learning

A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.

If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.