Teaching Quotes

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.

To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.

Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.

For me teaching has provided community and livelihood and the satisfaction of passing along what I've learned to others.

I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out.

What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

I've never enjoyed a course or training as much as this. I feel inspired, energised and more focussed about my teaching and career future.

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...

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

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

Teaching is a passionate profession.

The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.

You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.

I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

I feel like there is an emphasis against teaching geography in American schools. Americans don't say, "I'm going to Germany." They say, "I'm going to Europe."

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.