Teaching Quotes And Sayings

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“The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.”
– Marva Collins

“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.”
– Mary Kay Ash

“The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections of the pupil, who puts forth, as a parasite, tendrils by which to cling, not knowing to what — to a supporter or a destroyer.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
– Maya Angelou

“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.”
– Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.”
– Nikos Kazantzakis

“Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”
– Orison Swett Marden

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

“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”
– Patricia Neal

“Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the “naturals,” the ones who somehow know how to teach.”
– Peter F. Drucker

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.”
– Rachel Carlson

“Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.”
– Richard Bach

“Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.”
– Richard Bach

“Don’t follow your dreams; chase them.”
– Richard Dumb

“The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.”
– Robert Brault

“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”
– Robert Frost

“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”
– Robert M. Hutchins

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. ”
– Samuel Johnson

“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.”
– Simone Weil

“There is no teaching to compare with example.”
– Sir Robert Baden-Powell

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Sir Winston Churchill

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

“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
– St. Francis Of Assisi

“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”
– Thomas Carruthers

“A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.”
– Thomas Szaz

“History is philosophy teaching by examples.”
– Thucydides

“Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.”
– Tim Hansen

“Stay committed to your decisions; but stay flexible in your approach.”
– Tony Robbins

“Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.”
– Tracy Kidder

“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. ”
– Tryon Edwards

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