Teaching Quotes

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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
The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk… — John William Strutt
There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain… — George Polya
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there.… — George Bernard Shaw
Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction… — David Perkins
The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do. — Alfie Kohn
What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects… — Howard Gardner
Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems. — David Perkins
Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation — Jerome Bruner
Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy. — Myron Tribus
To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the… — John Dewey

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