Quotes About Understanding

empathy is more powerful than sympathy

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.

Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical soul.

Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.

Love is the end of sympathy.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.

A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.