Top 100 Learning Teaching Quotes
#1. In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.
Peter Drucker
#2. Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.
Mao Zedong
#5. Let the main object ... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.
John Amos Comenius
#6. Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
Idries Shah
#7. At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach - it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.
Sydney J. Harris
#8. Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.
Quint Studer
#9. A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
Ruth Beechick
#10. A person teaching and a person learning,' he said, 'should have the same end in view: the improvement of the latter.
Seneca.
#11. Students quickly receive the message that they can only be smart when they are not who they are. This, in many ways, is classroom colonialism; and it can only be addressed through a very different approach to teaching and learning.
Christopher Emdin
#12. 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
#13. Learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking ... so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually be more worth your money than a serious, clear book that tells you what to think but doesn't make you think.
Brian D. McLaren
#14. In thinking back, not having any experience in any other elementary school, there may have been an advantage of being with different age groups to benefit from what they were learning in a more advanced capacity. With a small group like that, there was a lot of one-to-one teaching.
Paul Smith
#15. Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point ...
Quint Studer
#16. Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
Thomas Carlyle
#17. In teaching for truly lifeworthy learning, might we hope to teach for wisdom?
David Perkins
#18. A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.
David W. Oxtoby
#19. Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'
Adora Svitak
#20. The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.
Leo Buscaglia
#21. The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
John Locke
#22. Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#23. Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Plato
#24. The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.
Shunryu Suzuki
#25. In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.
Gerry Schwartz
#26. What we want ... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.
Howard Gardner
#27. I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.
Hilton Als
#28. As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
Andy Hargreaves
#29. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.
Suzy Kassem
#30. We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear
Peggy Noonan
#31. The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.
Jerome Bruner
#32. Teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.
Morgan Llywelyn
#33. Just remember, quality assignments are the hallmark of effective teaching; teaching made up mostly of testing does not improve student learning.
Eleanor Dougherty
#34. Sometimes it feels like you have nothing, or aren't going anywhere, but while you're waiting for fortune to deliver you, there is always something you can do to help yourself, or teach yourself to better your situation.
A.J. Darkholme
#35. Learning means change and change is usually difficult.
Herman L Glaess
#36. You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. Somerset Maugham
#37. So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet?
Cay S. Horstmann
#38. I remember loving pencils. I was fond of paper. I loved the small of textbooks. I loved the way the light from a desk lamp was bright on a page. I loved the smell of fresh-cut grass. It was a thing everybody loved, but there was no shame in being that much like everybody else, in sharing that.
Frederick Barthelme
#40. 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
#41. When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.
Richard E. Pattis
#42. Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love-that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to perform up to their real capabilities.
Jan Carlzon
#43. While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.
Nicholas Negroponte
#44. A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.
Bobby Knight
#45. Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
Diane Ravitch
#46. Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else's word for it.
A.J. Darkholme
#48. Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you ... ?
Mark Lepper
#49. Worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).
Mike Schmoker
#50. As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, or enticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again
Lee S Shulman
#51. For me, as a Christian I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right,
Torii Hunter
#52. Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything
Stewart Stafford
#53. You are not your mistakes and your mistakes are not you.
Bryant McGill
#54. The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.
Idries Shah
#55. One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.
Lord Chesterfield
#57. To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
Gautama Buddha
#58. HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.
Idries Shah
#59. Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions
Diane Ravitch
#60. Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
Oliver E. Williamson
#61. Give a man a teacher
and he'll learn many a thing.
Teach a man to learn
and he'll learn from everything.
Cameron Semmens
#62. We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.
Wendy Whelan
#63. When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we are participating in a total experience ... In this experience the beautiful, the decent, and the serious form a circle with hands joined.
Paulo Freire
#64. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Paulo Coelho
#66. I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
Marva Collins
#67. There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?
Noel Tichy
#68. When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.
Marva Collins
#69. Nothing has happened in education until it has happened to a student.
Joseph Carroll
#70. Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
Carlos Fuentes
#71. the process through which any concept or subject (content) is taught becomes a part of the content. (p19)
Donovan L. Graham
#72. The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.
Seymour Papert
#73. The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#75. Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can't wear her smiling face to the platform. You've got to put that smile on your own face.
Israelmore Ayivor
#76. That's what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.
Raph Koster
#77. In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.
David Perkins
#79. There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
Paulo Freire
#80. One of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage -and contribute to-the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.
James Roby
#83. One barrier ... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.
David Perkins
#84. A relationship is a process. If you have nothing to learn - you have a slave to teach. 's why schools are effective.
Will Advise
#86. If your students aren't learning, then maybe you're not teaching.
Ace Antonio Hall
#88. Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.
Wheeler McMillen
#89. Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.
Ian Dunbar
#90. Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.
Marshall McLuhan
#91. I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn.
Dalai Lama XIV
#92. Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.
Myron Tribus
#93. The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
Benjamin Zander
#94. As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training ... not just a few.
Quint Studer
#95. The overwhelming number of teachers ... are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
Alfie Kohn
#96. Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer, if we figure out the supports and infrastructure to make all of that possible - and it is completely within reach.
Ai-jen Poo
#97. There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
Elizabeth I
#98. People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.
Natalie Cole
#99. We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.
Tim Fargo
#100. All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
John Dewey
