Quotes About Teaching

I do not innovate. I transmit.

It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it was like to be on a Russian estate in 1830. You are there. And that is the hope when you sit down and write still, I think - that you can transmit something of what life is like now.

You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's how you improve.

Real education happens only by failing, changing, challenging, and adjusting. All of those gerunds apply to teachers as well as students. No person is an "educator," because education is not something one person does to another. Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.

Teaching, I soon learned, was a deliberate dance, a constant running conversation, a pleasure.

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

And now, if you have anything more to ask, I can't think how you can manage it, for I've never heard anyone tell more of the story of the world. Make what use of it you can.

This technocratic–instrumental perspective on teaching and teacher learning has advocated deference to so-called educational experts, a teacher-proofing of the curriculum, and a devaluing of teachers' own innovations and decisionmaking in their classrooms (Herrera & Murry, 2016; Jackson, 2015; Leopard, 2013).

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man...

I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him, saying: O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this?

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Yo no puedo enseñarle nada a nadie, tan sólo puedo incitarle a pensar

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "No puedo enseñar nada a nadie. Solo puedo hacerles pensar" (Sócrates)

Those who do wrong unintentionally are in need of instruction, not punishment.

Rely on the message of the teacher, not on his personality; Rely

As the Buddha said: "I have shown you the way to liberation, now you must take it for yourself.

Lineage serves as a crucial safeguard: It maintains the authenticity and purity of the teaching.

the central truth of Buddha's teaching: that we are all already essentially perfect.

the truth of the teaching which is all-important, and never the personality of the teacher.

I will abandon all grasping, yearning, and attachment, Enter undistracted into clear awareness of the teaching