Quotes on Teaching

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. _x000D_ God is the ground, the substance, _x000D_ the teaching, the teacher, _x000D_ the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.

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.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.