Quotes About Teaching

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?

Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.

I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. "Teaching to the middle" is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

We are taught words, not ideas.

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

People who believe in creationism say that by teaching evolution you are indoctrinating them with science, but I just don't agree with that.

Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

I truly believe children learn by examples much more than what you can teach them verbally.