Quotes About Teaching

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility.

We learn by teaching.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.