Quotes About Teaching

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.

Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Education teaches the basics of knowledge while learning develops their understanding and use.

Good teachers leave their footprints behind for others to walk in and continue the revolution.

To be an excellent teacher, you need to lower yourself to the knowledge level of your student.

A teacher's profession is the one true profession which asks for nothing in return, but only gives, and gives till the very end.

The greatest teaching was imparted by individuals who not just learnt a subject, but practiced it as well.

Teaching is a priceless gift to any determined learner. Good teachers are therefore priceless gifts to eager learners.

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.