Quotes About Teaching

hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún sentido. En ese sentido, aprendo de él.

XV. FOUNDING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL How the freedman yearned to learn and know, and with the guiding hand of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Northern school-marm, helped establish the Public School in the South and taught his own teachers in the New England college transplanted to the black South.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -from Song of Myself

I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me? I follow you whoever you are from the present hour, My words itch at your ears till you understand them.

There Paul tried to pass along his love of mechanics and cars. "Steve, this is your workbench now," he said as he marked off a section of the table in their garage.

The school as at fault for trying to make me memorise stupid stuff rather than stimulating me

Steve believed it was our job to teach people aesthetics, to teach people what they should like

Then I would explain, it was no use trying to learn math unless they could communicate it with other people."4

Visual understanding is the essential and only true means of teaching how to judge things correctly," Pestalozzi wrote, and "the learning of numbers and language must be definitely subordinated." 58

The school as at fault for trying to make me memorize stupid stuff rather than stimulating me

Tasks . . . she'd been putting off, she suddenly dove into, such as talking to Joel about sex. Instead of teaching him as she'd taught me — with the help of college nursing texts that made the sexual organs look like plants — she use the new Penthouse .

how many teachers since Socrates actually lived what they taught?

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

You don't learn journalism in school, you learn it by WRITING FUCKING JOURNALISM. You teach yourself to wire up your own brain and gut and reproductive organs into one frightening machine that you aim at the planet like a meat gun.

The discipline of postponing gratification is the single most important discipline your son needs.

When teachers are fully successful, they are successful beyond any of their conscious intentions about particular subjects: they make converts, they make souls that have been turned around to face a given way of being and moving in the world.

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers.

you're here to teach yourself and others in some way, and that the work is to raise the collective energy of our entire universe.

As Lao-tzu taught me many years later, "If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place." I corrected my mind and began to see myself as capable of accomplishing anything I place my attention on, and I learned that sometimes our most profound teachers show up for us wearing unexpected disguises.

Teach your kids, and any children you can, to sanctify life.

Khalil Gibran stated it perfectly in The Prophet:

communicated indirectly, through metaphor and story.

really been teaching for thirty years or have you been teaching one year, thirty times?" And you, dear reader, have you really lived 10,000 or more days or have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times? A good question to ask yourself as you work toward more spontaneity in your life.