Teaching Quotes

2884 Teaching quotes by 1777 unique authors

I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their… — Seymour Papert
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates… — George Bernard Shaw
It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but… — John Taylor Gatto
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. — Ivan Illich
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say… — Ivan Illich
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It… — Khalil Gibran
I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear… — Barry Long
Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love. — Kevin Heath
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity… — Leo Tolstoy
We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic… — W. E. B. Du Bois
The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew… — Bertrand Russell
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself. — Eleanor Roosevelt
But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that… — Aristotle
We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the… — Leo Tolstoy
The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who… — Will Durant
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those… — Richard Dawkins
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. — Unknown Author
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society. — Paul Wellstone
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. — Marva Collins
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. — Patricia Neal
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking. — Ross Perot
My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother… — Richard P. Feynman
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of… — Unknown Author
The honor that we pay to the Son of God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists of an upright… — Origen

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