Teaching Quotes

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Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. — Dr. Seuss
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. — Josef Albers
The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know. — Carl Rogers
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching. — George Bernard Shaw
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one… — Marva Collins
Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. — William Arthur Ward
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. — George Savile
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus… — Howard Gardner
In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message. — Ashley Montagu
LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming,… — George MacDonald
That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair. — Jane Lynch
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and… — Seymour Papert
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. — Frank Herbert
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the… — Bertrand Russell
Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination. — W. W. Sawyer
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge. — Aristotle
In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring. — Johann Friedrich Herbart

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