Teaching Quotes

"Even while they teach, men learn."

Seneca

"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others."

John Locke

“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.”

“If you give a man a fish, he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn.”

Anne Isabella Ritchie

“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.”

Plutarch

“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”

“While we teach, we learn.”

Seneca

“If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.”

John Dewey

“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.”

Bob Talbert

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”

Galileo Galilei

“Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.”

Anatole France

“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”

Mario Cuomo

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

George Herbert

“Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, calibre, and future of an individual.”

“I touch the future. I teach.”

Christa McAuliffe

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

Brad Henry

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

Marva Collins

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

Gail Godwin

"Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon."

Ann Lieberman

"Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion."

“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.”

Charlie Munger

“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”

Rudyard Kipling

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

William Arthur Ward