Quotes About Teaching

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

Wherever you find something extraordinary, you'll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.

If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.