Quotes About Teaching

The details to be left as an exercise to the student.

it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. So go crazy with the rules?the time your child spends trying to figure them out is time he won't be stapling firecrackers to the neighbor's dog.

That's why I love talking and teaching: the act of reproducing ideas out loud reinforces them in the head. If, every time you read a complex book or idea, you had to explain it to someone else, you'd never forget it.

For a year she taught him how to look into the hearts and judge the intentions of others. How to imagine and how to reason. How to find the strength to let passions cool before acting. How to make a plan and how to know when a plan needed to be changed or abandoned. How to let the head rule the heart and the heart win the affection of others.

I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute! I mean, I just want to know one thing: How do you teach them not to eat your kids?

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

A man's life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that taught you. The second was the one you taught. The third and fourth were the ones you worked. The last was the one that outlived you. That was the winter dog. Cortland's winter dog had no name. He thought of it only as the scarecrow dog…

Children learn much more by mute example than by spoken rules, or so it seems to me.

What you need to remember is that there's a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.

It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind.

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

writing couldn't really be taught, only learned.

We have may teachers, animal, vegetable and mineral

No one presumes to teach an art that he has not first mastered through study. How foolish therefore for the inexperienced to assume pastoral authority when the care of souls is the art of arts.

Never feel sorry for me, just teach me and watch me grow.

Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.

A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

Learning can never be quantified with a flawed educational unit.

Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise.

Each person in your life is a teacher, each experience in your life is a lesson. Living is like looking into a mirror, every teacher is you.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.