Quotes About Teaching

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age.

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

I hate learning through experience. Just once I'd like to learn something because someone was nice enough to tell me in advance.

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

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.

If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!