Quotes About Learning

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility.

We learn by teaching.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

There is a school in Heaven, and there one has only to learn how to love. The school is in the Cenacle; the Teacher is Jesus; the matter taught is His Flesh and His Blood

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.