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Quotes About Teaching

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.
~ Harry Wong
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
~ Abraham Maslow
You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.
~ Seymour Papert
The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.
~ Richard Rohr
My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.
~ Kevin Gates
Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent
~ KRS-One
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
~ B. F. Skinner
Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.
~ John Amos Comenius
Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.
~ Amartya Sen
The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.
~ George Muller
How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?
~ John Dewey
While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.
~ Haim Ginott
You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.
~ Rudolf Steiner
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals
~ Walter Lewin
Let Nature be your teacher
~ William Wordsworth
Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.
~ John Amos Comenius
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.
~ Rudyard Kipling
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
~ Éliphas Lévi
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
~ Helen Caldicott
A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.
~ Tariq Ramadan
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.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.
~ David Ausubel