Teaching Quotes

History is Philosophy teaching by examples. (Thucydides)
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. View quote
Anatole France
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition. View quote
Jacques Barzun
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences. View quote
Howard Gardner
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. View quote
Knute Rockne
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? View quote
Harriet Martineau
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. (Oscar Wilde)
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. View quote
John Steinbeck
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. View quote
H. G. Wells
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building. View quote
Miguel Syjuco
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn. View quote
Robert Sternberg
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. View quote
Phyllis Diller
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. View quote
Gail Godwin
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care. View quote
Horace Mann
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole. (Fritz Zwicky)
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked. View quote
John Dewey
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink. View quote
Gore Vidal
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. View quote
Tertullian
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. View quote
Richard Bach