Quotes About Teaching

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.

He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.

A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.

The enemy is a very good teacher.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Your enemy can be your greatest teacher.