Top 100 Teaching Education Quotes
#1. Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.
Michael N. Castle
#2. Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.
Ray Bradbury
#3. Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.
Debasish Mridha
#4. The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. "Teaching to the middle" is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.
Mike Lee
#5. Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
Immanuel Kant
#6. By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#7. Learning and teaching are not symmetrical. They are not the flip sides of the same coin, in spite of the fact that almost all papers and conversations on education assume they are. The working assumption
Sugata Mitra
#8. This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck about education, but it was a temporary position.
Daniel Handler
#9. When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#10. Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John Ruskin
#11. Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.
Aldous Huxley
#12. I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.
Christine Lagarde
#13. When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.
Michael Joseph Brown
#14. You never can truly help people by helping them, but you can help people by teaching them how to help themselves.
Debasish Mridha
#16. New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#17. Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The growing awareness of the need for Christian education was one of the chief forces behind the desire in the sixteenth century to reform the rite of baptism.
Hughes Oliphant Old
#18. My task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not so easy that my students don't push their thinking.
Kimberly Hill Campbell
#19. In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Phil Collins
#20. A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.
Mollie Marti
#21. That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.
Taylor Mali
#22. I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.
Mike McCue
#23. Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
Howard Gardner
#24. Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other people have written about this subject. Read it; study it; think about it. You can do it too.
William Zinsser
#25. Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.
Amit Ray
#26. Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual of remarks, or the stray example, changes the way some students thought to the point of changing their lives.
Greg Carlson
#27. It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.
Louis Eliot
#28. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
#29. It's been said that only the educated are free, but I contend. Only those who are educated with TRUTH can be inherently free. Otherwise, you are simply indoctrinated with error.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#30. The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
Alexander Sutherland Neill
#31. The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor ... to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University.
Robert M. Pirsig
#34. There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.
Neil Postman
#35. [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
#36. For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful question marks ever placed against the architecture of university education.
Roy Landau
#37. I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing.
Rob McClure
#38. Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#39. Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
Richard Dawkins
#40. She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis.
John Horne Burns
#41. Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner
#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
#43. Christian education begins where evangelism ends, helping believers grow in their faith.
Perry G. Downs
#44. Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.
John Dewey
#45. A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
Malcolm X
#46. Teaching mathematics, like teaching any art, requires the ability to inspire the student. Inspiration requires marketing, and marketing requires stirring communication.
Hartosh Singh Bal
#47. This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.
Rebecca Goldstein
#48. Education can help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. Teaching students to make healthy decisions can improve habits now and instill healthy eating habits for a lifetime.
Matt Cartwright
#49. When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.
Ernest L. Boyer
#50. There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.
Laurence Overmire
#51. School curriculum, learning activities--all educational pursuits--should be characterized by and should lead to a sense and experience of wholeness. (p25)
Donovan L. Graham
#52. Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.
Charles E. McKenzie
#53. The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching and the status of great teachers.
Ken Robinson
#54. A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.
Ernest Dimnet
#55. A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
Ruth Beechick
#56. I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.
Walt Disney
#57. The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
Agnes Repplier
#58. If only education will aim at teaching learners' real life and life in books and not just books, learners will learn and understand real life and not just books, and they will dare to face life with real life lessons and lessons from books!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#59. I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people.
Augustine Of Hippo
#60. Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.
John T. Scopes
#61. Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'
George Lucas
#62. Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's a matter of connection with fellow citizens and of democratic education.
Jeffrey Rosen
#63. I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.
Bell Hooks
#64. That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
William Hazlitt
#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. They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners ... I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children
Jill Telford
#69. The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.
Noam Chomsky
#70. One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.
Bennett Cerf
#71. Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.
Marva Collins
#72. For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.
Milton Berle
#73. We are both a student and a teacher from birth. How eagerly we embrace these roles determines how fulfilled we are with our lives.
Simon Boylan
#75. Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
John Ruskin
#76. A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass ... Will you?"
James E. Myers
#77. The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.
Henri Lebesgue
#78. The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William Bennett
#79. The service members who defend our way of life ask very little in return, but they deserve teachers who will be as relentless in teaching their children as the military is in protecting our interests at home and abroad.
Tucker Elliot
#80. To handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. It kills one's aspirations and dooms him to vagabondage and crime.
Carter G. Woodson
#81. 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
#83. When you don't know a thing, learn. When you know the truth, teach.
Debasish Mridha
#84. I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.
C.S. Lewis
#85. To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
Aristotle.
#86. A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.
Theodore Roethke
#87. Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Tertullian
#88. 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
#89. Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.
Marion Brady
#90. We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on.
Rod McKuen
#91. The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer.
Joey Lauren Adams
#92. A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.
Peter Schjeldahl
#93. Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?
Charles Francis Potter
#94. I am teaching ... It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
Anne Sexton
#95. Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.
Milton Berle
#96. This week, Georgia's board of education approved a plan that allows teachers to keep using the word Evolution when teaching biology. Though, as a compromise, dinosaurs are now called Jesus Horses.
Jimmy Fallon
#97. To exclude religious teaching altogether from education ... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#98. Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.
Charles E. McKenzie
#100. I wouldn't have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best ... But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra
Ben Mitchell
