Teaching Quotes

2884 quotes by 1777 authors

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others. — Mark Twain
It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say,… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own… — H. L. Mencken
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. — Jane Austen
Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure. — Evan Esar
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope
Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks. — Paul Samuelson
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. — Annette Funicello
Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It… — B.F. Skinner
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry,… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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… — Arthur Koestler
More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are… — George Washington Carver
A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not… — Martin Luther
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no… — Joshua Reynolds
God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting… — Robert Burns
I'll teach you differences. — William Shakespeare
See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it. — John Ruskin
Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens… — Louis Agassiz

Who Wrote These Teaching Quotes

1,777 authors contributed a total of 2,884 Teaching Quotes, led by these top contributors: