Quotes About Teaching

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

Intolerance, it seems to me, is taught and is not inherent in man's character. It is taught at a young age by overprotective elders, by unfortunate examples, and by poor-mouthing differences rather than exulting in the excitement of their presence.

Students want a safe, predictable, and nurturing environment—one that is consistent. Students like well-managed classes because no one yells at them, and learning takes place. Effective teachers spend the first two weeks teaching students to be in control of their own actions in a consistent classroom environment.

getting the students to comprehend and achieve. There is no one right way to do this. Just like classroom management, there is no one right procedure for getting the students to do what you want them to do. There are many options, but they are based on core information.

School is not a place where students come to listen to lectures, fill in worksheets, and endure boredom. Nor is it a place reserved for those who can tolerate the drab and dirty look of many schools. School is a concept wherein students are welcome to learn and enhance the quality of their lives without fear of intimidation or harm, guided by hospitable and caring people in a clean and orderly environment.

When the students have no idea what is to be learned, and the teacher has no idea what is to be taught, no student learning can take place.

One of the most frequently used and useless phrases in education is, "I have so much to cover. How am I going to finish it by the end of the year?" Notice that the word I is used twice and the word student is never used.

The effective teachers spent time organizing and structuring their classrooms so the students knew what to do to succeed.

Instead of going back to teaching, she began to do housework because it paid more.

School het echte werk in de voorbereidingen en was de eigenlijke presentatie niet meer dan een toegift?

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

They said, "Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us. You are the All-Knowing, the All-Wise." (Surat al-Baqara, 32)

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

Flow can be found in so many things: Teaching, carving, exploring. Healing, writing, making right. Unearthing, interpreting, speaking truth. What is common between them is an exhilaration in the engagement, the challenge, and no guarantee of success.

Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations.

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

On average, schools employing a solely oral approach graduate students at eighteen who read at a fourth-grade level; students from Bi-Bi schools often read at grade level. Spoken English is taught as a useful tool, but is not a primary focus.

Unhappiness isn't the worst thing in the world. It doesn't last forever and it usually teaches you something about yourself.

Mother Earth is always giving, even if it's a lesson. She is always giving." –Tiokasin Ghosthorse

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.

It is about the elephants - it was they who whispered to me and taught me how to listen.