Teaching Is An Art Quotes

#1. Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

William James

#2. Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

Dick Cavett

#3. The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

Paulo Freire

#4. Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.

Deborah Ann Woll

#5. Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are good teachers. That may seem an obvious statement, but in higher education, it is often the student's course evaluations that win the day with administrators.

Michelle Grabner

#7. The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.

George Grosz

#8. What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.

Ernst Von Glasersfeld

#9. Learning is as much an art as teaching

B.K.S. Iyengar

#10. Teach the art of living well.

Seneca The Younger

#11. It is only obvious that teaching is a very special art, sharing withonly two other arts-argriculture and medicin-an exceptionally important characteristic.

Mortimer J. Adler

#12. When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt, so was sort of a novice folkie ... I was singing folk songs at that time.

Joni Mitchell

#13. Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

Sigmund Freud

#14. Poem
Words from the heart
Breaking, teaching, healing
The deepest, purest form of art
Feeling

Esther Spurrill Jones

#15. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek, the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that is the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying.

C.S. Lewis

#16. The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

William James

#17. The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.

Ken Bain

#18. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren

#19. Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#20. I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

Pat Conroy

#21. Teaching is performance art.

Kate Clinton