Quotes About Teaching

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

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

Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll learn.

It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom.

ACADEMIC CHAIRS ARE MANY, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.

Second, the teacher should be given extensive liberty in the selection of the material to be taught and the methods of teaching employed by him. For it is true also of him that pleasure in the shaping of his work is killed by force and exterior pressure.

L'insegnamento che viene elargito dovrebbe essere percepito come un regalo prezioso e non come un dovere imposto

Herhangi bir ders veya hobiye duyulan sevginin, gorev duygusundan daha iyi bir ogretmen olduguna inaniyorum; en azindan kendim acisindan.

Se você não consegue explicar algo de forma simples, você não entendeu suficientemente bem.

Corrige al sabio y será más sabio, corrige al ignorante y lo harás tú enemigo

The only rational way of educating is to be an example of what to avoid, if one can't be the other sort.

The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.)

And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them anything, you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they will know nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellow-men.

You read and you're pierced. That's one of the things I try to teach my students-how to write piercingly.

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo. Las lees y te traspasan. Ésta es una de las cosas que intento enseñar a mis alumnos: a escribir de manera penetrante.

Özgür ve insan olmak istemiyor musunuz? Ä°nsanl?k ve özgürlüÄŸün ne olduÄŸunu anlam?yor musunuz? Hiddetten ak?c? konuÅŸuyor, sözcükleri kolayca ve h?zla geliyordu. Anlam?yor musunuz? diye tekrarlad?, ama sorusuna yan?t alamad?. Peki öyleyse, diyerek sert bir tonda devam etti. Size öÄŸreteyim, isteseniz de istemeseniz de sizi özgür k?laca??m.

Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seems to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgement or to feel doubt.

Moral education, ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.