Explore Quotes on Teaching

The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

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.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

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

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

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

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.