Quotes on Teaching And Learning

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.