Quotes About Teaching

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

History is philosophy teaching by example.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

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

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.