Quotes About Teaching

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey. . . . – Rumi (p. 123)

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

Because a fellow can see ever now and then that children have more sense than him. But he dont like to admit it to them until they have beards.

Siempre son los hombres que no sirven para nada los que te dicen cómo debes hacer las cosas. Son como esos profesores de Universidad que no tienen ni un par de calcetines propios y te dicen cómo puedes hacerte millonario en poco tiempo, o esas mujeres que nunca consiguieron atrapar marido y te dicen cómo se debe educar a los hijos.

O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

Wherein you reprove another be unblamable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precept.

His manager taught him that words change with time, by single letters or more, sometimes their whole roots switching—a "y" to an "e" in a name for power, "sun-writing" becomes "light-drawing." The man eventually gave him this whole other tongue, and he revisited and at last learned from those cuttings about immense foreign wars.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

This is how concreteness helps us understand—it helps us construct higher, more abstract insights on the building blocks of our existing knowledge and perceptions. Abstraction demands some concrete foundation. Trying to teach an abstract principle without concrete foundations is like trying to start a house by building a roof in the air.

avoid useless accuracy, and to dodge the Curse of Knowledge, is to use analogies.

the growth mindset can be taught and that it can change lives.

If you've got to teach an idea to a room full of people, and you aren't certain what they know, concreteness is the only safe language.

Language is often abstract, but life is not abstract. Teachers

This is the Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has "cursed" us. And it becomes difficult for us to share our knowledge with others, because we can't readily re-create our listeners' state of mind.

The existence of the devil is so clearly taught in the Bible that to doubt it is to doubt the Bible itself.

That woman's going to be the death of you!" Dhai Ma wailed. "She's wearing you down to skin and bone." But this was not true. The sorceress had taught me a yogic breath that filled me with energy so that I needed no other sustenance.