Quotes About Learning

When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

The enemy is a very good teacher.

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Your enemy can be your greatest teacher.

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

Injuries are our best teachers.

Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.

My biggest struggles have been my biggest teachers.

We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.