Quotes About Knowledge

The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.

You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.

It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.

Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don't think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.