Teach Quotes - Page 2

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.

Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson

For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

One of the greatest gifts a caring teacher can contribute to children is to help them learn to sit when they feel like running, to raise their hand when they feel like talking, to be polite to their neighbor, to stand in line without pushing, and to do their homework when they feel like playing. By introducing procedures in the classroom, you are also introducing procedures as a way of living a happy and successful life.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.