Quotes About Learning

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

I love my failures because they taught me more than my teachers ever could...

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy

One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

History is philosophy teaching by example.

I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell "jump shot" rather than how to shoot it.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.