(127 quotes found)
“We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.”
Sasha Azevedo
“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”
Jacques Barzun
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.”
Henry Brooks Adams
“To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.”
Benjamin Jowett
“A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar”
Bradley Millar
“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
“Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The difference between good teachers and great teachers is that great teachers have mastered the art of teaching people things they didn't know they needed to learn.”
Jeff Wahl
