Quotes About Teaching

By studying the masters -- not their pupils.

Although they both survived this campaign more or less unscathed, they suffered the humiliating experience of having to make self-criticism of their family background, their education abroad, and their outlook on life as reflected in Henry's architectural designs and in their teaching methods.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

You can't impart what you don't possess.

Not everything children experience has to be put on their level in order to do them good. Some things must be. But not everything.

He wrote, 'Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. Latin Proverb

Because the plastic brain can always allow brain functions that it has brought together to separate, a regression to barbarism is always possible, and civilization will always be a tenuous affair that must be taught in each generation and is always, at most, one generation deep.

civilization will always be a tenuous affair that must be taught in each generation and is always, at most, one generation deep.

It would take many centuries before Christian preachers started to teach that when Christ said, 'Blessed are the poor for theirs in the Kingdom of Heaven,' he meant not just the poor in spirit (the pious), but the actual impoverished masses of people.

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

any specific teaching that contradicts a teaching of the Bible is false.

My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him.

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.

Basta hojear las biografías o las autobiografías de grandes estudiosos para descubrir casi siempre el recuerdo del encuentro con un docente que, durante los estudios secundarios o superiores, fue decisivo para orientar la curiosidad hacia esta o aquella disciplina. Todos nosotros hemos podido experimentar hasta qué punto la inclinación hacia una materia especifica ha sido suscitada, con mucha frecuencia, por el carisma y la habilidad de un profesor.

La enseñanza, de hecho, implica siempre una forma de seducción. Se trata de una actividad que no puede considerarse un oficio, sino que en su forma más noble presupone una verdadera vocación. El verdadero profesor, por lo tanto, toma los votos

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.

If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn