Quotes About Learning

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

I want teachers to teach, and I want Oreos to be eaten.

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know? I had different teachers.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

I learned from my teachers but became through my music

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training