Teaching Quotes

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

Never allow others to think you always have the best answers. This will only make them dependent on you.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Tell people - and they may forget...show them - they may remember...but involve them and they will understand.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Those that do teach young babesDo it with gentle means and easy tasks.

The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

At our best, we are all teachers

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.

The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete.

If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

A great teacher makes hard things easy.

I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.

Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better." -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.

I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.

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.

What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.

When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.