Teaching Quotes - Page 2

• More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

  Bertrand Russell

  Teacher, Educational, Important

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.181, Routledge

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• We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Strength, Education, Wisdom

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.13, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

  George Santayana

  Education, Teacher, Children

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Successful, Assessment

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  Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Clever, Live Life

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• If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Powerful, Yesterday

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• Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Education, Helping, Prove It

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• Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.

  David Perkins

  Teacher, Educational, Learning

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• To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

  Anne Sexton

  Education, Kind, Affair

  "Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters".

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• I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

  George Lucas

  Education, Teacher, Loud Voices

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• Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Art, Mindfulness, Realization

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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• The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

  Alfie Kohn

  Teacher, Learning, Names

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• Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

  David Perkins

  Teacher, Responsibility, Learning

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

  Milton Berle

  Education, Promise, Graduates

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• My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Lessons, May

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1448, Oxford University Press

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• We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.

  Stephen Brookfield

  Teacher, Appreciation, People

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• Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

  Myron Tribus

  Learning, Joy, Quality

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  [Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

  Jim Henson

  Motivational, Family, Education

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.54, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

  Geoffrey Holder

  Inspirational, Children, School

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• What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Able, Today

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• 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.

  Marva Collins

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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