(1734 quotes found)
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
E. E. Cummings
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”
Albert Einstein
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
Mark van Doren
“If kids come to us [educators / teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.”
Barbara Colorose
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
Oscar Wilde
“Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.”
Richard Bach
“There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly”
Lola May
“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
Aristotle
“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen”
Philip Wylie