Teaching Quotes

2884 Teaching quotes by 1777 unique authors

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living. — Thomas Carlyle
We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit. — Dalai Lama
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. — Robert Burns
The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living. — Jean Cocteau
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw. — John Ruskin
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their… — Arthur C. Clarke
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming… — Ivan Illich
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. — William Godwin
My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art. — Howard Pyle
I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction. — Howard Pyle
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature. — John Lyly
It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me. — Irving Townsend
If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and… — Charles Kettering
The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned. — Clive James
I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough. — David Hockney
I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father. — Angelina Jolie
When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality. — Sogyal Rinpoche
If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a… — W. Eugene Smith
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me. — Amy Tan
I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid. — Sathya Sai Baba
Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor… — Sathya Sai Baba
Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life. — Sathya Sai Baba
It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or… — Ben Shahn
By leaving a student to himself he may... be led to undertake matters above his strength, but the trial will at least have this advantage:… — Joshua Reynolds

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