Quotes About Teaching

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more.

Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "develops" leaders, the Church "disciples" them. The two are not the same.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!