Teaching Quotes

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Teachers learn from their students' discussions — Rashi
Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except… — Mortimer Adler
Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness. — Parker J. Palmer
Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered. — Jean Piaget
Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions. — Unknown Author
Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart. — Howard G. Hendricks
Teaching, without learning, is just talking — K. Patricia Cross
Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance. — Ray Bradbury
Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched. — Donna Fargo
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. — B.F. Skinner
That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for. — Gregory Maguire
The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher. — Leo Tolstoy
The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was. — David McCord
The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every… — David Goodstein
The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself. — Evan Esar
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.... — Frederick Douglass
The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university… — Nicholas Murray Butler
The most precious things in speech are the pauses. — Ralph Richardson
The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn… — Benjamin Bloom
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor. — Barbara Mertz

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