Teaching Quotes

2884 Teaching quotes by 1777 unique authors

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is… — M. Russell Ballard
Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with,… — M. Russell Ballard
In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live… — Christian D. Larson
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free… — A. R. Ammons
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate… — Niklaus Wirth
I had been teaching myself photography. — Ree Drummond
Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student. — Geoffrey Canada
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of… — Bill Moyers
A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its… — Rabindranath Tagore
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student… — James Loeb
The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching. — Unknown Author
The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover… — Joshua L. Liebman
If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information… — Paul Lockhart
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is… — Philip Sidney
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to grow… — Ivan Illich
There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of… — Hendrik Verwoerd
Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being… — Henry Giroux
We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be… — Jacque Fresco
The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates. It’s first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of… — Jacque Fresco
To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have… — Bill Crawford
Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If i had to pay money to do it, I would do itIt's problematical.… — William Friedkin
The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the teacher within our… — Parker J. Palmer
Whereas disinfecting Christians involves isolating them and teaching them to be good, discipling Christians involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for… — David Platt

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