Teaching Quotes

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

~ John Dewey

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher?The student replied: “Everything!Kobun, paused, then said: “No, you.

~ Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

~ Mike Schmoker

Real education happens only by failing, changing, challenging, and adjusting. All of those gerunds apply to teachers as well as students. No person is an “educator,” because education is not something one person does to another. Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.

~ Siva Vaidhyanathan

I would go to parties and say I was an editor, and people, especially women – and that was important to me back then – would say, “Oh, really?” and raise their eyebrows and look at me a little more carefully. I remember the first party I went to after I became a teacher, someone asked me what I did for a living, and I said, “Well, I teach high school.” He looked over my shoulder, nodded his head, said, “I went to high school,” and walked away.Once I repeated this anecdote around a big table full of Mexican food in the garden at a place called La Choza in Chicago, and Becky Mueller, another teacher at the school, said that I was a “storyteller.” I liked that. I was looking for something to be other than “just” a teacher, and “storyteller” felt about right. I am a teacher and a storyteller in that order. I have made my living and my real contribution to my community as a teacher, and I have been very lucky to have found that calling, but all through the years I have entertained myself and occasionally other people by telling stories.

~ Peter Ferry

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?

~ E.r. Braithwaite

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

~ Irene Tomkinson

Live in the present, or die in your past; it's your choice.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one. The unawakened one sees the observer and the observed as different.

~ Sri Amma Bhagwan.

You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn't feel right. Trust your instincts and listen to your inner-voice — it's trying to protect you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought. To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

~ John Steinbeck

Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.

~ Donald L. Hicks

A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Someone's forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We watched, and he taught us like he did every day we were with him. He showed us how to forgive.

~ Rob Buyea

The transformed person is a revolutionary only because he has revolutionized himself. He gives the people inspiration by holding up a mirror to their inner substance.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?

~ Gail Carriger

Just preaching you are blessed to a congregation is like giving them a big fertile land. They need the seeds to plant on it; they need business ideas, a little of which is enough!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A mentor is a person, an expert in a specific area of endeavour who trains, guides and observes a less experienced person to also become an expert through support, advice, and involvement in character building opportunities.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You will learn more when you teach someone else. The secret to obtaining more knowledge is teaching more people as possible and available!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It's iron that can sharpen iron, wood cannot do that.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

God did not create you to be alone. He deposited skills, knowledge, and talents in someone out there who is expected to mentor you, teach you and encourage you to go high. Go, get a mentor!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The best way to teach is how you live your life.

~ Gina Greenlee

Teach me your way of looking at people:as you glanced at Peter after his denial,as you penetrated the heart of the rich young manand the hearts of your disciples.I would like to meet you as you really are,since your image changes those with whom you come into contact.Remember John the Baptist’s first meeting with you?And the centurion’s feeling of unworthiness?And the amazement of all those who saw miracles and other wonders?How you impressed your disciples,the rabble in the Garden of Olives,Pilate and his wifeand the centurion at the foot of the cross. . . .I would like to hear and be impressedby your manner of speaking,listening, for example, to your discourse in the synagogue in Capharnaumor the Sermon on the Mount where your audience felt you “taught as one who has authority.

~ Pedro Arrupe

Jesus may give you eternal life, but until then, your ass going to stay right were it is until you do something about it.

~ Bryant Mcgill

In our modern world, we often separate faith from practice. But the way of Jesus rejects this notion. Only living our faith offers the credibility to teach our faith. Anything less is less that the teachings of Christ.

~ Dillon Burroughs

The most compassionate thing I can do for them is continuing to see their potential. They need to know that people are not going to abandon them because of their bad behavior. Only in the security of this can they let themselves learn better strategies.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.

~ Bryant Mcgill

No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.

~ Debasish Mridha

As long as you know 'to let' means to rent and not a place to pee, you’re all set to travel in the UK. The lifts and the boots and everything else don’t really matter.

~ Tucker Elliot

The night skyline was stunning. I could see the Monas and Istiqlal Mosque bathed in brilliant white lights and a dozen other places of cultural and historical significance. It’s an amazing, beautiful world we live in … despite Uncle Google’s abysmal view of American schools, the security checkpoints and vehicle inspections that seem to be everywhere, and the need to be vigilant because of the things we do to each other.

~ Tucker Elliot

I’d see the arrow. I’d think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.

~ Tucker Elliot

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

~ Gerry Abbey

And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.

~ Gerry Abbey

I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.

~ Gerry Abbey