Quotes About Teaching

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The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then ? to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

T.H. White

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

Frank Herbert

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Martin H. Fischer

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

Albert Einstein

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Isaac Asimov

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Confucius

The true teacher knocks down the idol that the student makes of him.

Rumi

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

Benjamin Franklin

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

Roald Dahl

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry