Teaching Quotes

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We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher. — Jerome Bruner
Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student. — Parker J. Palmer
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by… — William James
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively… — Nel Noddings
The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy… — Steven Pinker
Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching. — Paul Q. Hirst
. . . [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct. — William James
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give. — John Dewey
But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms. — Paul Q. Hirst
There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to… — Paul Q. Hirst
I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech."… — Parker J. Palmer
Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively… — Paulo Freire
How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on… — Paulo Freire
This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part… — Paulo Freire
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. — Maxine Hong Kingston
I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance. — Barbara Jordan
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. — Gilbert Highet

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