Quotes About Teaching

Every teacher that I've ever had, that I still remember their name, made me laugh. I feel like comedy is the best instrument to teach.

If I have taught my sons anything in life, it is to have integrity - to always tell the truth, and I believe they have.

Intellectual and emotional curiosity is what I hope I've taught my children.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

Guardiola improved me a lot as a footballer. He taught me a lot of things, and that's why, in every interview I'm asked, I always say the same thing: He is the best manager that I have worked with.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.

The average American school lags twenty-five years behind the best practice" (Mort, 1953).

No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

The man who really knows can tell all that is transmissible in a very few words. The economic problem of the teacher (of violin or of language or of anything else) is how to string it out so as to be paid for more lessons.

And old Padre Jose telling him to read as much as he could for the world was open only to those who could read and this skill was the most precious gift that any teacher could give. -Istak

his message was always succinct and startling: 'If ever I utter the words I think,' he declared on one occasion, 'I hope the people will go to sleep and remain asleep until I have done with thinking. We are not here to give our thoughts, but God's words.' Manly

If ever I utter the words I think,' he declared on one occasion, 'I hope the people will go to sleep and remain asleep until I have done with thinking. We are not here to give our thoughts, but God's words.

The Yale report explained that the essence of liberal education was "not to teach that which is peculiar to any one of the professions; but to lay the foundation which is common to them all.

Just like your daddy taught you to make it," he said. His big belly laugh was the sweetest sound in the world. She would have made a deal with the devil himself in exchange for hearing that sound every day.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus, although the eighteenth century shyness toward it had long lost all point.

Ne leur apprends pas à scier si tu ne sais pas tenir une scie ; ne leur apprends pas à chanter si chanter t'ennuie ; ne te charge pas de leur apprendre à vivre si tu n'aimes pas la vie. (p. 23)

Dis-toi que l'éducation commencera le jour où l'atmosphère sera complètement débarrassée du moindre miasme de « sanction ». Et les plus difficiles à désinfecter seront peut-être les enfants. (p. 27)

Despite the popularity of the leadership industry, a real competence in building and leading teams is uncommon, and there isn't a generally accepted way to teach these competencies.

Alto, escuálido, traslúcido, hecho de espíritu, don Nicolás Gaviria, rector del instituto, era un fantasma que transitaba con delicado paso por civilizaciones, siglos, milenios, en la única clase que impartía, la de Historia Universal.

The ruling classes are entrenched in all positions of state power. They monopolize the teaching field. They dominate all means of mass communication. They have infinite financial resources. Theirs is a power which the monopolies and the ruling few will defend by blood and fire with the strength of their police and their armies.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.