Quotes About Learning

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.

Teachers learn from their students' discussions

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.