Quotes About Learning

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Success is a lousy teacher.

I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.