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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we are participating in a total experience.... In this experience the beautiful, the decent, and the serious form a circle with hands joined.
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that.
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
One of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational system. Universities are still teaching a system to students that destroys the biosphere.
My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete freedom. Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children go about with books under their arms, not with rifles on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement, in reaching a consensus.
A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.
There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
The young dont know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.
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