Activity Quote by Paul Q. Hirst

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence…

— Peter Drucker

Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those…

— Calvin Coolidge

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life.…

— William James

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil…

— Michel de Montaigne

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

— Paulo Freire

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have…

— Marva Collins

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

— David Ausubel

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most…

— Socrates

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what…

— Gloria Estefan

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as…

— Richard Bach

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of…

— Paulo Freire