Teaching Quotes
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.
Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something for free. … We're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and ask for a handout.
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.
Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.
The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.
Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible
Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
