Teaching Quotes

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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one should teach who is not in love with teaching. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching. — Thomas Huxley
It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence of training is… — Henry Clay Trumbull
Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the… — Charlotte Mason
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their… — Seymour Papert
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates… — George Bernard Shaw
It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but… — John Taylor Gatto
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. — Ivan Illich
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say… — Ivan Illich
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It… — Khalil Gibran
I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear… — Barry Long
Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love. — Kevin Heath
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity… — Leo Tolstoy
We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic… — W. E. B. Du Bois
The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew… — Bertrand Russell
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself. — Eleanor Roosevelt
But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that… — Aristotle
We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the… — Leo Tolstoy
The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who… — Will Durant

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