Quotes About Teaching

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist

Fathers should teach their sons how to earn money because mothers teach their daughters how to spend it.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. I do it with adults now.

Nos enseñaron desde niños cómo se forma un cuerpo sus órganos sus huesos sus funciones sus sitios pero nunca supimos de qué estaba hecha el alma

Un niño de mi clase dice que su abuela es una vieja de mierda. Yo le enseñé que en todo caso debe decir una anciana de mierda.

El tiempo es un viaje de escalas infinitas donde aprendemos y enseñamos algo. Aleluya.

I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.