Quotes of Teaching - somelinesforyou

“ I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Experience teaches only the teachable. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

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

- Anatole France

“ Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. ”

- Chinese proverb

“ Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ”

- Gail Godwin

“ He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition. ”

- Jacques Barzun

“ If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much. ”

- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman

“ Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. ”

- Richard Bach

“ Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ”

- Horace Mann

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

- Anatole France

“ Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ”

- Jacques Barzun

“ You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. ”

- Galileo Galilei

“ Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Education, n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. ”

- John Dewey

“ The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. ”

- Carl Rogers

“ Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ”

- Robert Frost

“ I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. ”

- Ezra

“ 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. ”

- Aristotle

“ What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ”

- Gail Godwin

“ To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. ”

- Mary Pettibone Poole

“ Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ”

- Pete Seeger
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