Mortimer Adler Quotes about Teaching

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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Mortimer Adler

Inspirational, Positive, Teaching

"The Leisure Alternatives Catalog: Food for Mind & Body". Book by Joseph Allen, 1979.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

Mortimer Adler

Teacher, Memories, Teaching

... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.

Mortimer Adler

Teaching, Agreement, Mind

Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.147, Simon and Schuster