Quotes About Teaching

If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?

She taught me to love by loving me, and I learned—rather slowly; I wasn't too good a pupil, being set in my ways and lacking her natural talent. But I did learn. Learned that supreme happiness lies in wanting to keep another person safe and warm and happy, and being privileged to try.

One can lead a child to knowledge but one cannot make him think.

I'm a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.

Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told.

Marrying Gretchen is a good idea, darling; I would enjoy bringing her up. Teaching her to shoot, helping her with her first baby, coaching her in how to handle a knife, working out with her in martial arts, all the homey domestic skills a girl needs in this modern world.

Once can lead a child to knowledge but one cannot make him think.

Well, 'hate' is the other luxury an instructor can never afford. We must not hate them, we must not like them; we must teach them.

From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, "Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again." He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.

I knew that the stupidest students, the silliest professors, and the worst bull courses are concentrated in schools of education

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There is a story of a spiritual seeker who one day came to his master and asked, "In the olden days it is said that there were people who walked and talked with God. Why doesn't this happen anymore?" The master replied, "Because nowadays no one will stoop so low.

We could give our children the most wonderful blessing if only we would stop passing the buck to them.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

Aleister Crowley knew about this pragmatically, before modern neurology. He taught his pupils to learn to write equally well with both hands, thereby forcing the dormant right brain to spring to activity.

That's the way adults often talk to children. You know they're not going to listen, but you want to tell them anyway just so you know that you have.

You're a very wise man. Thank you." He spread his hands. "To possess great wisdom obliges one to share it. Enjoy.

Most fundamentally, school systems need to put higher quality teachers in poor schools under conditions in which they can actually teach and not just keep order.

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people's satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

One never knows be it days, weeks or years, when the pupil is ready, the teacher appears.

I believe in teaching, but I don't believe in going to school.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn

There are two kinds of teachers—the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies." (I hope I am remembered as a prodder.)

One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil. —FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE