Top 100 Teach Teaching Quotes
#1. Only the brave should teach ... Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
Pearl S. Buck
#2. What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.
T.F. Hodge
#3. I cannot teach
if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.
James Tiptree Jr.
#4. There are probably other things in the world that the sheep can't teach me, thought the boy as he regarded the old merchant. All they ever do, really, is look for food and water. And maybe it wasn't that they were teaching me, but that I was learning from them.
Paulo Coelho
#5. I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars, I would still teach. It's different every day. You get to meet intelligent people all the time - or at least most of the time.
Richard Bausch
#6. One doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything ... nor ought one to blame others.
Charles Darwin
#7. We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
Oswald Chambers
#8. The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.
Raheel Farooq
#10. You don't always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.
Bryant McGill
#11. Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.
Siobhan Davies
#12. You have been blessed to stand on the shoulders of giants. Make sure that someone stands on yours as well. This is the only way of human progress.
Chris Matakas
#13. It is said that "there is a self," but "non-self" too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is "neither self nor non-self." Everything is real, not real; both real and not real; neither not real nor real: this is the teaching of the Buddha.
Nagarjun
#14. Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.
Tom DeLay
#17. The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.
Harvey Dunn
#18. In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Phil Collins
#19. Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.
Paulo Freire
#20. My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.
Dana Spiotta
#21. It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#22. It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.
Mark Twain
#23. It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.
John Grisham
#25. I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
Danica McKellar
#26. You teach others how to treat you by how you treat others.
Bryant McGill
#27. To reduce violence, stop teaching how to find differences and teach unconditional kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
#29. You cannot teach a poor person to be rich until they change their context. Teaching a person with poor or middle class person's context is a waste of time ... and it does annoy them.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#30. I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.
Erin Gruwell
#31. 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
#32. Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
Idries Shah
#33. [S]cience has contributed a great deal to war and violence, and people well trained in science are sometimes not entirely rational and are even dogmatic. We have to find a way to teach reflectively, not just scientifically.
Nel Noddings
#34. We are inclined to think that everything that happens is to be turned into useful teaching. In actual fact, it is to be turned into something even better than teaching, namely, character. The mountaintop is not meant to teach us anything, it is meant to make us something.
Oswald Chambers
#35. In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.
John Van Hamersveld
#36. If I teach you reading and writing, I'm warning you I've got to hit you on the head and call you bad names when you're stupid, because that's how you do teaching.
Louis De Bernieres
#37. I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree that they would teach only what they know, that they would not palm off guesses as demonstrated truths.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#38. 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
#39. Teaching was never a vocation for me. Certainly I never aspired to teach people how to live. I was what used to be called a scholar. I wrote books about dead people. That was where my heart was. I taught only to make a living.
J.M. Coetzee
#40. We teach people in order to open up their minds and release their captive powers. But we cannot predict the result. Freedom - we free their minds from superstition. We give the people the keys of the future to act therein as they wish.
Tayeb Salih
#41. You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
Anna Deavere Smith
#42. The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.
Jonathan Alter
#44. Literature could turn you into an asshole: he'd learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you did characters, as instruments of your own intellectual pleasure, cadavers on which to practice your critical faculties.
Chad Harbach
#45. The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.
Frederick Soddy
#46. Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to this point, how he should live; and living well, how he should teach; and teaching rightly, with what kind of self-examination he should learn of his own weakness.
Gregory The Great
#47. Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
Virginia Woolf
#48. Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.
Joshua Reynolds
#49. The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Simone Weil
#50. We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scripture, and read it for himself, taking God for his teacher.
William Tyndale
#51. Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.
Paul Hauck
#52. We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.
Li Hongzhi
#53. To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.
Alan Wolfe
#54. I can't teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.
Hank Moody
#55. I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
Patricia McBride
#56. Friends, you like it or not, life has a way of teaching us all these tough lessons.
Sunday Adelaja
#57. Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
Pat Conroy
#58. What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
Roman Jakobson
#59. I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.
Stephen Moyer
#60. In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?
Yuriy Tarnawsky
#61. I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
Orson Scott Card
#62. You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.
Gilbert Highet
#63. Teach positively, never abuse kids in the teaching process. I believe it is cowardly to teach in a negative way, to insult players, or challenge their manhood.
Gordie Gillespie
#64. Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.
Ujas Soni
#65. Take a child & teach him physics his first 7 grades of education, I submit he'd excel to a savant-like level. Imagine adult focus for 7 yrs.
Ace Antonio Hall
#66. I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.
William Zinsser
#67. 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
#68. If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.
Austin O'Malley
#71. Your unresolved issues will continue to call-in experiences to teach you what you need to learn.
Bryant McGill
#72. I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.
Richard P. Feynman
#73. I believe in taking care of myself and teaching other people who want to learn. I don't believe in just printing money and giving money. I'm willing to teach those who are willing to learn. If you're not willing to learn, then go vote for Obama. I'm not Republican or Democrat, so don't get me wrong.
Robert Kiyosaki
#74. 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
#75. A good student learns from his teacher.
A great student learns to teach himself.
A.P. Sweet
#76. School is the worst choice, it teach us that we can focus on a lot of stuff at first view it's like preparing to work hard as a villager use to do or somebody else with such type hard work. From other it's selfish and from last it's full of obstacles...
Deyth Banger
#77. To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all.
Vironika Tugaleva
#78. We teach best by how we live life; who we are instructs with absolute clarity.
Bryant McGill
#79. You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.
Benjamin Franklin
#80. The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as 'nobody can do anything
Lemony Snicket
#83. The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.
Zhuangzi
#84. When you don't know a thing, learn. When you know the truth, teach.
Debasish Mridha
#85. It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
William Shakespeare
#86. Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
#87. Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Tertullian
#88. In teaching for truly lifeworthy learning, might we hope to teach for wisdom?
David Perkins
#89. Oh." Dad frowns. "Why hasn't Annabel been teaching you how to walk in heels? I thought we had an agreement: I teach you how to be cool and she trains you how to be a girl."
I stare at him in silence. This explains so much.
Holly Smale
#90. People who smile tend to manage, teach and sell more effectively, and to raise happier children. There's far more information in a smile than a frown. That's why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.
James V. McConnell
#91. The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.
Carl Rogers
#92. As the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, he'll have to teach himself.
Zechariah Barrett
#93. It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.
Octavia E. Butler
#94. It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.
Haruki Murakami
#95. Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#96. Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle.
#97. Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.
Utah Phillips
#98. It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently.
Andre Maurois
#99. I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.
Jonathan Kozol
#100. If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.
Ursula K. Le Guin
