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Quotes About Teaching

La educación moral, que no debe nunca ser racional en modo alguno.
~ Aldous Huxley
Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational
~ Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches only the teachable
~ Aldous Huxley
Until all teachers are geniuses and enthusiasts, nobody will learn anything, except what they teach themselves.
~ Aldous Huxley
Lenina uykuda öÄŸretilmiÅŸ parlak bilgeliÄŸini . . .
~ Aldous Huxley
The Diamond Sutra
~ Aldous Huxley
El estilo es de unos pocos. Surge de una intimidad muy elevada y misteriosa con un material concreto. No se puede enseñar, se posee. Es un acontecimiento.
~ Alessandro Baricco
This amused him much more than making piles of money. Teaching. He was a man made like that.
~ Alessandro Baricco
That's the trouble with teachers—they spend a lot of their time saying things. If they said fewer things—hardly anything—then people would listen to them. But they don't.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
matter to the test. Starting with a simple command—one that most dogs were capable of understanding and acting upon, sit—he stood in front of Martin, said sit in such a way that the position of his lips was exaggerated, and then pressed firmly on Martin's hindquarters, forcing them down. Martin looked up at his owner in mute incomprehension.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Moral Philosophy for two-year-olds, she thought. Don't throw food . It was as good a starting point as any to begin the teaching of responsibility towards the world around us. And it was helpful to back it up with some justification too: That's not nice . Again, a simple expression said it all.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Teaching is so demanding, and you get so little support. That pinch will have done Olive no harm - probably a lot of good.' 'Do you really think so?' 'Yes,' said Matthew. But then he went on, rather sadly, 'But I suppose that's not the world we live in, with all these regulations and busybodies about.' He paused. 'I think you've struck a blow for sanity. Or rather, pinched one.' She thought this very funny and laughed. 'I'm rather fed up with teaching anyway,' Elspeth said.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one.
~ Alexandra Robbins
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
~ Alexandre Dumas
He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God writes in azure with letters of diamonds.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.
~ Alexandre Dumas
So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
~ Donald Norman
Keep uppermost in your mind that the illusion that you experience is an illusion, that it is surrounding you for the purpose of teaching you. It can only teach you if you become aware of its teachings.
~ Donald Tully Elkins
Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is...and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.
~ Donna Ball
Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
~ Donna Brazile
To teach well is to believe in what and whom you teach.
~ Donna Bulger
If we profess to be teaching Yoga, which is a science and art of living, we must practice that way of living ourselves. If we wish only to teach poses or postures, it would be better to call what we do by a name other than Yoga.
~ Donna Farhi
You can't bank your experiences for your children.
~ Donna Procino
The educational process must again provide the opportunity for students to make choices and live with the consequences of these choices. Teaching is not simply telling people what to believe and do.
~ Donovan L. Graham