Quotes About Teaching

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

As Regis Mckenna once said, the best marketing is education

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.

A good student is one who will teach you something.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd.

How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.

A school's job [is] to begin education.

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way.

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.

Education, education, education

Better untaught than ill-taught.

Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.