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Quotes About Teaching

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.
~ Georges St-Pierre
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
~ Bertolt Brecht
I do not want to bring anything when I die, my knowledge should be shared with this world.
~ Bob Sadino
By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
~ Benjamin Rush
Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.
~ Ivan Sutherland
Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.
~ Confucius
Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.
~ Sai Baba
Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.
~ George W. Bush
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
~ Johann Gottfried Herder
Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.
~ Edmar Mednis
It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.
~ Albert Einstein
Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
~ Robert Genn
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am only here to share my knowledge with others and to help them make rapid progress on the path of yoga.
~ Dharma Mittra
Schools teach ignorance.
~ Eduardo Galeano
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
~ Laozi
When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.
~ Max Lucado
Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.
~ Susan Mann
It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.
~ Margaret Deland
We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.
~ H. L. Mencken
There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
~ Samuel Johnson