Quotes About Teaching

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

Men are most virile and attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has withstood so much bad preaching!

...as the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, he'll have to teach himself.

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.

Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair.

Fine, I'll teach you, ''Besides, there's only so many times a girl wants to fall on her butt in front of the boy she's out to impress.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.