Quotes About Knowledge

Computers aren't magic; teachers are.

I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways.

I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Experience is a thorough teacher.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

When the teacher, the spiritual master, is praying for the mercy of the Lord to enlighten the student, then by the blessings of the Lord the student gets the blessing of knowledge.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.

An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I was going to get educated.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.