Teaching Quotes

2884 Teaching quotes by 1777 unique authors

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
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

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