Teaching Quotes

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The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning. — Carl Rogers
The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because… — John Amos Comenius
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. — Seymour Papert
The surest test of discipline is its absence. — Clara Barton
The teacher's life is painfull and therefore would be pityed: it wrastles with unthankfulnesse above all measure...Our calling creepes low and hath pain for companion. — Richard Mulcaster
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history. — H.G. Wells
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands. — William James
The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs… — Roger Smith
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. — Roger Ascham
There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And… — Bennett Cerf
There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment. — Shunryu Suzuki
There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation. — Robert Cialdini
They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool. — Smokey Robinson
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent. — Madame de Stael
Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can… — John Dewey
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. — Gwendolyn Brooks
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray… — Elie Wiesel
We are not naÃ¯ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their… — Jean Rostand
We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt. — William Ernest Hocking
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. — Antisthenes

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