Teaching Quotes

Stop blaming and start being!

Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee.

Bible

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

Galileo

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Napoleon

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

First he wrought and afterwards he taught.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

If the student fails to learn the teacher fails to teach.

Anonymous

To teach is to learn twice.

The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.

Cicero

Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

A high-school teacher after all is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in and to defend if possible the part their elders are playing in it.

He who can does. He who can't teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

Chinese Proverb

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

Anonymous

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.

We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

Anonymous

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

Buddha