Quotes About Teaching

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

You can't teach a son to be loyal if the father is not loyal. The same applies with the mother and her daughter.

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

The only time that a girl should ever fall on her knees for a guy, is the day she ties her son's shoe-laces.

Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

What are you doing to me?" he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. "I can't fly!" You're flying right now. "I'm falling!" Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.

The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die.

I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.