Teaching Quotes

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When teaching someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary, and more from the way the boundary is established.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You are not your mistakes and your mistakes are not you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

In the online math class, there was almost no meaningful student/teacher or student/student interaction. To equate this type of online learning with a real-world classroom experience is a major stretch.

~ Ian Lamont

The most effective learning takes place in the classroom, where you can easily raise your hand, engage in spontaneous discussions with classmates and faculty, turn to the person next to you to ask for clarification, or approach the professor after class or during office hours to ask questions or exchange viewpoints in a way that practically guarantees an instant response and is not constrained by typing, software interfaces, or waiting for a response.

~ Ian Lamont

Your unresolved issues will continue to call-in experiences to teach you what you need to learn.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual of remarks, or the stray example, changes the way some students thought to the point of changing their lives.

~ Gregory C. Carlson

I don’t argue with fools, I educate.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We are all just humble students of the world.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Only a self-learnt man can reach others.

~ Girish Kohli

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.

~ Neil Postman

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

~ Idries Shah

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

~ Tim Fargo

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

~ Idries Shah

The art of teaching lies in communicating the mystery of the universe without taking the mystery out of it.

~ Dane R. Pascoe

That which triggers understanding often is found by bringing misunderstanding to the light.

~ Dane R. Pascoe

We don't teach flowers to bloom, we ensure they have the best conditions in which to do so.

~ Dane R. Pascoe

He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He avoids saying to her 'I don't know how you do it,' in order not to have to hear her say in return, 'Someone has to do it.

~ J.m. Coetzee

What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race, there is no simple answer to how to work with children in the classroom. It is a matter of being present as a whole person, with your own thoughts and feelings, and of accepting children as whole people, with their own thoughts and feelings. It's a matter of working very hard to find out what those thoughts and feelings are, as a starting point for developing a view of a world in which people are as much concerned about other people security as they are about their own

~ Eleanor Duckworth

That’s what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.

~ Raph Koster

The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.

~ Ken Bain

In short, we much struggle with the meaning of learning within our discipline and how best to cultivate and recognize it. For that task, we don't need routine experts who know all the right procedures but adaptive ones who can apply fundamental principles to all the situations and students they are likely to encounter, recognizing when invention is both possible and necessary and that there is no single 'best way' to teach.

~ Ken Bain

To benefit from what the best teachers do, however, we must embrace a different model, one in which teaching occurs only when learning takes place. Most fundamentally, teaching in this conception is creating those conditions in which most--if not all--of our students will realize their potential to learn. That sounds like hard work, and it is a little scary because we don't have complete control over who we are, but it is highly rewarding and obtainable.

~ Ken Bain

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

~ Tim Fargo

If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world.

~ Tim Fargo

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships—a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

~ Abraham Flexner

I received comments on how extraordinary it was that I could keep up speaking for exactly 45 minutes. Indeed, in an age of soundbites lasting some seconds and of quick quotes in the news, all those minutes do seem like an eternity, easy to get lost in. Yet, wait a moment. Television is not the only place where speeches are given. Some hundred thousand teachers teach every day. They all speak 45 minutes, more times a day. They have been doing this for years. Every teacher knows exactly when the time will be over and that by then his speech will need to come to a natural end. It is this tension that determines the success of a lesson. It is a sign of the times that we forget these daily achievements in education. A million students daily attend several ‘live’ lectures and this in secondary education alone. These are high ratings!

~ Robbert Dijkgraaf

A good teacher does something more than teaching, he makes you start learning.

~ Raheel Farooq

Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

~ Raheel Farooq

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

~ Diane Ravitch

A good teacher does not teach all that he knows. He teaches all that the learners need to know at the time, and all that the learners can accountably learn in the time given.

~ Jane Vella

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

~ Edward O. Wilson

I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was still learning when I taught my last class.

~ Claude Moore Fuess