Quotes About Teaching

Teaching didn't pay well enough for any luxuries, and Hannah thought that was a shame. There was something really wrong with the system when a teacher could make more money flipping burgers at a fast-food chain.

The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. —NELSON MANDELA, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

After years of seeing the world in absolutes, he has taught me how to pick out all the shades of possibilities.

There will come a respect and dignity for work when the people are being taught.

The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

I've sent you three balloons with three wishes for you on your birthday. First, I wish that this Birthday teaches you something new and beautiful. Second, I wish that you have a day that you'll remember forever with a smile. And third, I wish that such days keep coming in every single day.

To teach children to be critical thinkers, confident in being who they are, active learners and happy.

I now see myself leaning new things teaching new things creating object of beauty, loving others & being loved passionately and happiness.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

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

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

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

A teacher is someone who doesn't measure what's given but measures the change created by the giving.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Practice what you preach before you try to teach it to someone else.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.