Quotes About Teaching

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not only teaching. My teaching is constantly being fed by my learning.

A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.

I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.

He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make.

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Those who don't know must learn from those who do.

A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

If you cannot teach others what you have learned, then you have learned nothing.

Be slow to teach, and quick to learn.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.