(1734 quotes found)
“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
John Steinbeck
“Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life”
Aristotle
“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar”
Bradley Millar
“More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given”
Bertrand Russell
“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”
Charles F. Kettering
“Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead”
“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
Anatole France
“The burned hand teaches best.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.”
William Shakespeare
