Abstract Quote by Fulton J. Sheen

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

— Andy Hargreaves

Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching.

— Paul Q. Hirst

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

— Maria Montessori

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the…

— Benjamin Whichcote

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

— Rabindranath Tagore

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

— Laozi

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

— John Lancaster Spalding

He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to…

— Henry Clay Trumbull

A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic,…

— Paulo Freire

“If there’s someone who doesn’t understand what I’m teaching, I try to understand who they are.   A”

— Lisa Delpit