Quotes About Learning

...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. 'They'll keep you company on the day you have no books to read,' my teacher said.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

The child-teacher relationship is crucial.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

learning 's a gift, even when "pain" ,s your teacher!

In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

I've always wanted to play a teacher.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.