Quotes About Teaching

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.

Teachers learn from their students' discussions

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.