Teaching Learning Quotes - Page 5

• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Flower, Teaching

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• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Education, Wise

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

  H. G. Wells

  Education, Appreciation, Witty

  Outline of History (1920) vol. 2, ch. 41, pt. 4

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

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• True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Leadership, Education, Teaching

  Attributed; no source found

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Knowledge

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

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• The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, Teaching, Students

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• Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

  "Moving Forward".

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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• As a teacher and parent, I've had a very personal interest in seeking new ways of teaching. Like most other teachers and parents, I've been well aware painfully so, at times that the whole teaching/learning process is extraordinarily imprecise, most of the time a hit-and-miss operation. Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they learn may not be what we intended to teach them at all.

  Betty Edwards

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  Betty Edwards (1989). “Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence”, Jeremy P. Tarcher

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• What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, Mean, Scripture

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Teaching, Reading, Writing

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• Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.

  Jonas Salk

  Teaching, Over You, Asking

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• Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

  Charles Handy

  Teaching, Long, May

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• Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Teaching

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• If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration.

  Lee S Shulman

  Philosophy, Teaching, Frustration

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• People teach what they most need to learn.

  M. J. Ryan

  Teaching, People, Needs

  M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.24, Conari Press

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