Teaching Quotes

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

~ Aristotle

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness.

~ Criss Jami

There is truth and knowledge beyond present understanding.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

~ Niels Bohr

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

~ Gian-Carlo Rota

Everything is like a wall. Said a scholar to the troll. Bang your head to go on through. Then you'll see, there is no queue.

~ Will Advise

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

~ Kirby Larson

You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Experience alone isn’t a good enough teacher – evaluated experience is.

~ John C. Maxwell

.the worse experience, the better teacher..

~ Kovo

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

~ Nelson Mandela

Before you can be effective in communication with ANYONE else, you must know who YOU are. It begins with you. Believe me when I say, I don't need anyone's approval in this classroom ... I'm great company for myself. Me, myself, and I ... we laugh a lot. (Said on the first week of class each phase, somewhat rewording each time, but the gist is always there).

~ Dacia Wilkinson

The teaching conundrum had been solved. Teaching evolves where the costs are outweighed by the inclusive fitness benefits that result from the tutor's relatives being more likely to acquire the valuable information. Teaching is not favored when the pupil can easily acquire the information on their own or through copying others. Nor is it favored when imparting traits that are difficult to learn, as teachers generally do not possess the information to pass on to their relatives. These restrictions typically lead to few circumstances under which teaching would be efficacious. Models that allow for cumulative cultural knowledge gain, however, suggest that teaching evolved in humans despite, rather than because of, our strong imitative capabilities, and primarily because cumulative culture renders otherwise difficult-to-acquire valuable information available to teach. The analyses suggest that human teaching and cumulative culture evolved together, through mutual reinforcement.

~ Kevin N. Laland

Some kind of philosophy undergirds every movie, commercial, lecture, or book. Everything we take into our minds is trying to teach us something about how we should think the world is. (Life Hacks, p.83)

~ Jon Morrison

Gifted teachers master the patience required for the unending business of transmitting civilization down the generations, transforming biological facts – children – into social artifacts called citizens. It is wearying work and it is a wonder teachers can summon the stamina for it.

~ George F. Will

It was one of the only times in my teaching career that I got angry and showed it in class. I was young and inexperienced, and I thought certain standards were respected and understood.

~ Azar Nafisi

A good expository paper will benefit far more people than most research papers. A good text is worth a thousand of the usual trifles that appear in research journals.

~ Morris Kline

How?' Irene enquired. She'd decided a while back that Socratic reasoning was a good idea, because (a) it got students thinking for them selves, (b) sometimes they came up with ideas she hadn't thought of, and (c) it gave her more time to think while they were trying to find answers.

~ Genevieve Cogman

.it's a long road when you're on your own ,but there's no better teacher..

~ Boris Kovalík

.you can have little and be rich..

~ Boris Kovalík

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

~ Jeffrey Pfeffer

You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love.

~ Suzy Kassem

Love always was and always will be the only real answer. Why else do you think we have been taught so much hate?

~ Bryant Mcgill

To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.

~ Bryant Mcgill

To be great at anything that you do, you have to love it! but also give it your all..

~ Alcurtis Turner

There is nothing you will ever do that is more important than being honest about who you really are.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

~ Idries Shah

This is the eternal challenge with ignorance — ignorance can't see itself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

~ Amy Carmichael

At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the most important thing about what I was doing was getting it over with? Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

~ Colin Beavan

Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying to correct them in the moment.

~ Mommy Moo Moo

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers.

~ Catherine The Great

Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible.

~ Jeff Benedict

A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?

~ Liz Becker

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

~ Gordon Neufeld

If you can't be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?

~ Bryant Mcgill

Silence is more than observation, it informs from non-observation.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

~ Criss Jami