Top 100 Teaching Is Learning Quotes
#1. Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.
Jimmy Heath
#2. The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.
Stephen R. Covey
#3. The goal of teaching is learning, not teaching.
Hugo Rossi
#4. The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
Criss Jami
#5. 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
#6. An essential part of teaching
is to show how to enjoy learning.
Phil Mitchell
#9. Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
Richard Bach
#10. For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not only teaching. My teaching is constantly being fed by my learning.
Erica Brown
#11. 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
#12. The mind aware of itself is a pilot ... vastly freer than a passenger mind.
Marilyn Ferguson
#13. Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.
Nick Saban
#14. Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.
Peter Block
#15. We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.
A.J. Darkholme
#16. The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#17. One of my signature strengths is the love of learning, and by teaching, I have built it into the fabric of my life. I try to do some of it every day.
Martin Seligman
#18. To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all.
Vironika Tugaleva
#19. 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
#20. The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
Vandana Shiva
#21. 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
#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. Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you have accumulated instead of relying on the conclusions you have reached from the exogenous premises absorbed through teaching and bookish learning.
Erik Naggum
#25. Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to
learn how to use time constructively.
It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end.
Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.
Kenneth Wapnick
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#30. The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.
Randy Pausch
#31. My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith.
Hermes Trismegistus
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.
Quint Studer
#35. The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.
Jacques Barzun
#36. If a plethora of learning with a paucity of teaching is an approach to heaven and a plethora of teaching with a paucity of learning an approach to hell, the devil is hard at work in our educational systems.
Dee Hock
#38. Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.
S.I. Hayakawa
#39. Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?
DaShanne Stokes
#40. The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#41. The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.
Richard DuFour
#42. The best thing that I can teach you is to be compassionate and kind to all.
Debasish Mridha
#43. 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
#44. 20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting, though still a tricky proposition, is much easier.
Ken McCarthy
#45. Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
John Dewey
#46. When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.
Richard E. Pattis
#48. At Eton boys are woken at 5 a.m.; lessons begin at 6 a.m. and go on to 8 p.m. Teaching is generally in Latin and is a matter of learning by rote,
Ian Mortimer
#49. A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program
players not learning.
Don Meyer
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
Charles Darwin
#53. Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.
John Holt
#54. Learning is intelligence.
Knowing is understanding.
Practicing is wisdom.
Teaching is virtue.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#55. Intuition means exactly what it sounds like, in-tuition! An inner tutor or teaching and learning mechanism that takes us forward daily. It is a resource that, where recognized, has infinite potential.
Sylvia Clare
#56. The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.
Idries Shah
#57. WHO IS LEARNED? A definition
One who, consuming midnight oil
in studies diligent and slow,
teaches himself, with painful toil,
the things that other people know.
Piet Hein
#58. Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Dalai Lama XIV
#60. To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
Gautama Buddha
#61. 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
#62. The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
Margaret Mead
#64. The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
Carl Rogers
#65. If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
Idries Shah
#66. Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes.
Darren Shan
#67. That which triggers understanding often is found by bringing misunderstanding to the light.
Dane R. Pascoe
#68. 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
#69. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Paulo Coelho
#71. The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.
Ivan Illich
#72. But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul.
Anna Howard Shaw
#73. Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.
Alison Gopnik
#74. We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage ... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.
Howard Gardner
#76. The work of meaningful student involvement is not easy or instantly rewarding. It demands that the system of schooling change, and that the attitudes of students, educators, parents and community members change.
Adam Fletcher
#77. The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
W. Somerset Maugham
#78. The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#79. Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.
Bryant McGill
#80. Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.
Antonin Scalia
#81. I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.
Peter Drucker
#82. Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own.
Gina Greenlee
#83. Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned.
Diamond Ryan
#84. There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings ...
Haile Selassie
#86. That's what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.
Raph Koster
#87. Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde
#88. There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
Paulo Freire
#89. The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.
Criss Jami
#91. Teaching is the best way to learn. Never stop learning.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.
Grace Llewellyn
#94. Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
#95. 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
#97. 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
#98. A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.
John Goodlad
#99. 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
#100. Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.
Andy Hargreaves
