Quotes About Teaching

The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning--every teacher should know about it.

CI se ocupa sólo de una estrecha franja de habilidades lingüísticas y matemáticas, y que tener un elevado CI tal vez pueda predecir adecuadamente quién va a tener éxito en el aula o quién va a llegar a ser un buen profesor, pero no tiene nada que decir con respecto al camino que seguirá la persona una vez concluida su educación.

When we teach about anger, we help kids understand that it is almost always a secondary reaction and to look for what's underneath—are you hurt? jealous?

This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck about education, but it was a temporary position.

complain and share certain stories—for instance, the one that Mrs. Wilk eventually confided to my mother about how, yes, she and the other Polish girls of her town, Rzeszów, had been taught to hate the Jews, but they didn't know any better—and also would gossip about the pani, the rich neighbor ladies who did not share their meals with their cleaning ladies; after this time, during which the two women

Simple things are almost always the hardest to explain, Julie. Showing someone how to tie a shoelace is easy. Explaining it is almost impossible.

Man's place is to be the first without being the last . . . . [I]t's man's place to be the teacher of all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become.

When Jesus departed, he left no one behind who was the message.

What you do is to teach a hundred what I taught you, and inspire each of them to teach a hundred. That's how it's always done.

WHAT you DO NOT KNOW YOURSELF, you CANNOT TEACH ANOTHER.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

"Then Manoah prayed to the Lord, 'O Lord, I beg you, let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.'"

When I was in the ninth grade, I had a teacher in Dallas, Texas, named Elizabeth Enlow in English class. Every Friday, we had to write a little essay, and you had to incorporate three particular words into the story. That was the sole direction. And to me, this was so much fun.

"No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book."

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the einsteinconditions in which they can learn."

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

A great book can transmit years of wisdom in a few afternoons. Each sentence conveys meaning with precision and economy. A great book is a patient teacher and a deathless companion. A man with a good library has a thousand good mentors.

I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.