Teacher Learning Quotes

#1. Anybody who forces people to change their beliefs, they are not a teacher. Learning should come from understanding properly, not from being forced.

Carla Power

#2. Professional development is a collective resource, not a personal prerogative. Peer engagement forges powerful links between teacher learning and student growth.

Laura Lipton

#3. The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

Albert Camus

#4. It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#5. The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

Stephen Neal

#6. I believe that teaching is a creative art in which evidence based knowledge is applied toward meeting the learning goals of learners. I believe that effective teaching is often the spark that ignites the imagination, possibility, and promise for learners, including the teacher.

Barbara Paterson

#7. Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

Mike Schmoker

#8. The more you know, the more you don't know," the further you go in your training, learning, and experience as a yoga teacher, the more you'll realize that there's an infinite universe of knowledge and wisdom to bring to the practice.

Mark Stephens

#9. I was always my own teacher.

Eudora Welty

#10. There were some summers when every boy in Ayrshire seemed to be playing golf, and my dad taught me. But he was a terrible teacher - of everything. Learning to drive with him almost killed me. He was the world's most impatient man - awful short fuse.

John Niven

#11. I learned to drum and I'm very excited today. Well, first of all I got to ... I learned when I was in New York I sort of did some prepping with just learning basic stuff like beating my couch next to my drum teacher, who's this incredible guy named Charlie Green.

Alison Pill

#12. It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

Frederick Lenz

#13. When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Andy Hargreaves

#14. I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Paul Wellstone

#15. There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

Susan Mann

#17. 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

#18. If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Randy Alcorn

#19. Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#20. I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

Emily Mortimer

#21. True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

Robert Grudin

#22. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

William Arthur Ward

#23. Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#24. The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

Idries Shah

#25. There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.

Vironika Tugaleva

#26. In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.

William Barrett

#27. You have to be a good student before you can be a good teacher.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued to work as a teacher and a principal until she was forced to retire.Both she and my father instilled in my sister and me a deep love of learning.

Samuel Alito

#29. Failure doesn't Teach us!
Learning from it, is our Choice.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#30. Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

#31. Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

Joseph Stiglitz

#32. All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

Mortimer Adler

#33. I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material,

Eric Mazur

#34. Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

Andy Hargreaves

#35. Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.

Robert Kiyosaki

#36. Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

#37. Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

S.I. Hayakawa

#38. Shall there come a day when wise men are able to unite the dreams of youth and the delights of learning as reproach brings together hearts in conflict? Shall there come a day when man's teacher is nature, and humanity is his book

Kahlil Gibran

#39. A student must be humbled to trained by teacher.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. The most important duty of a teacher is to not only teach but to also inspire and enhance the desire for learning.

Debasish Mridha

#41. The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

Chogyam Trungpa

#42. My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

Chesley Sullenberger

#43. Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

Andy Hargreaves

#44. Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Arthur Koestler

#45. Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings.

Amit Ray

#46. To value learning as a gift, you have to accept pain as a teacher.

Jury Nel

#47. I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#48. The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher ... is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

Maria Montessori

#49. The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

Frank Smith

#50. What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

Andy Hargreaves

#51. 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

#52. We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

Victor Hugo

#53. The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result.

Susan Mann

#54. Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

Vladimir Lenin

#55. 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

#56. I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

Andy Andrews

#57. Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.

Julie Andrews

#58. Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire.

Robert Burns

#59. In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every scar there is a lesson. In every memory there lives potential to make more.

Toni Sorenson

#60. As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.

Lynda Resnick

#61. In classes, the more lively and uninhibited ones will "suck away the air" from those with a more passive nature, despite all the efforts of the teacher. It is also a special danger in large groups that you will hear your fellow students' bad pronunciation more than the teacher's perfected speech.

Kato Lomb

#62. William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book.

Jill Ker Conway

#63. A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.

Mollie Marti

#64. [My teacher] basically bribed me back into learning with candy and money and what was really remarkable was before very long I had such a respect for her that it sort of re-ignited my desire to learn.

Steve Jobs

#65. And that," said Bean, "is why losing is a much more powerful teacher than winning.

Orson Scott Card

#66. The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

Andy Hargreaves

#67. Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#68. In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read - and they have been many, big, and heavy - I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#69. Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed.

Richard Elmore

#70. The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.

Debasish Mridha

#71. Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher
that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

Peter McWilliams

#72. A Teacher who has courage to laugh at herself or himself; laugh with students, and laugh off difficulties is the harbinger of positive trails and cheerful learning outcomes.

Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

#73. On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

Andy Hargreaves

#74. The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning
every teacher should know about it.

Daniel Goleman

#75. Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage will serve only while one is on the highroad. He who reaches the end of the highroad will leave the carriage and walk afoot.

Johannes Itten

#76. You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

Andy Hargreaves

#77. Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

Neil Postman

#78. All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

Plato

#79. Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

Bel Kaufman

#80. When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher.

Majid Kazmi

#81. It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

Harry Wong

#82. Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

John Jay Chapman

#83. To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

Paulo Freire

#84. Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Bruce Lee

#85. Your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry
tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware of profane learning; to submit your reason, and to receive their doctrines for truths. Such advice renders them suspicious counsellors.

Frances Wright

#86. The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

Laozi

#87. Your past is your experiences and your teacher as well, and your future is your hope, your dream and your fate, while the present is your moment of learning from past and preparation for the future.

Jinnul Jr.

#88. Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

Thomas Paine

#89. Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Herbert Simon

#90. A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

Ruth Beechick

#91. Learning is good in and of itself ... the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.

George H. W. Bush

#92. History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

Will Durant

#93. Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.

Melissa Breen

#94. By learning to yield to the loving authority ... of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life - his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

James Dobson

#95. Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher

James Garner

#96. A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

James S. Coleman

#97. To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

James Joyce

#98. We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ... the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.

Rupert Murdoch

#99. I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement.

David Warlick

#100. It would do me well to realize that the path that has led me to where I am was mapped by those who taught me and paved by what they taught me. Therefore, if God is not my teacher and His truth is not my topic I will find myself where I don't want to be, having trod a path I didn't want to take.

Craig D. Lounsbrough