The Best Teaching Quotes

#1. I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that's probably the best way to do it ... because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he'll never forget it.

Tony Gwynn

#2. A sense of responsibility in teaching pushes us constantly to think about and promote the best interests of our students. In contrast, the demand for accountability often induces mere compliance.

Nel Noddings

#3. Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching ... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

Louis L'Amour

#5. One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

Warren Bennis

#6. Teaching is the best way to learn.

Debasish Mridha

#7. it seems best to view deacons as servants who do whatever is necessary to allow the elders to accomplish their God-given calling of shepherding and teaching the church.

Matt Schmucker

#8. Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worse player on the pitch!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.'

Wilbert J. McKeachie

#10. A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition ... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet received the attention they deserve.

Willis Lamb

#11. Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.

Warren Farrell

#12. Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.

Ujas Soni

#13. The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.

Idries Shah

#14. Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

Cesar Chavez

#15. The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. It's the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It's the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And

Malcolm Gladwell

#17. The best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide for life.

Richard G. Scott

#18. 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

#19. The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

Ivan Illich

#23. Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.

Steven Levy

#24. The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.

Randy Pausch

#25. In philosophy, phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Wine blind tasting is the best phenomenology, phenomenology par excellence, returning us from our heads into the world, and, at the same time, teaching us the methods of the mind.

Neel Burton

#26. Let's not automatically turn to the next page in the textbook because it's the next page of the textbook, but because that page best serves the students we are teaching. And if the next page isn't as good as the one 57 pages later, let's go to the one 57 pages away without guilt.

Rick Wormeli

#27. Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I'll take over from here and try to undo the damage

Harper Lee

#28. Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

James Monroe

#29. Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#30. 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

#31. Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.

Peter Abrahams

#32. In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

#33. We don't teach flowers to bloom; we ensure they have the best conditions in which to do so.

Dane R. Pascoe

#34. Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,
teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

Samuel Smiles

#35. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus the other.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#36. Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

James Weldon Johnson

#37. The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#38. They say just give up; that the world cannot be changed. Just live your life the best you can. Bullshit!

Bryant McGill

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

Ken Bain

#40. I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.

Marva Collins

#41. Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.

Jeff Atwood

#42. Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

David Maister

#43. The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

John Knowles

#44. The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#45. The best thing that I can teach you is to be compassionate and kind to all.

Debasish Mridha

#46. I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.

Lauren Willig

#47. Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.

Sathya Sai Baba

#48. I wrote: teaching what was for me the only truth, namely, that one should live so as to have the best for oneself and one's family.

Leo Tolstoy

#49. Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else's word for it.

A.J. Darkholme

#50. I have become distrustful of teachings and learning, and I have little faith in words that come to us from teachers. But, very well, my friend - I am ready to hear this new teaching, although I believe in my heart that I have already tasted the best fruit of it.

Hermann Hesse

#51. A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

Charles M. Schulz

#52. You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

Mem Fox

#53. It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

Charles Darwin

#54. The best learning I had came from teaching.

Corrie Ten Boom

#55. For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

Edmund Burke

#56. Those moments at the dinner table, I felt as Sveta were teaching me something important: that I didn't need to make every opinion known, didn't need to be filterless, that sometimes the best thing was to sit quietly and smile and sip my wine.

Molly Antopol

#57. Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.

John Taylor Gatto

#58. MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.

Sam Wineburg

#59. The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

Edmund Burke

#60. Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

John Ruskin

#61. The best way to teach is how you live your life.

Gina Greenlee

#62. The best teachers are the best storytellers.

Frank Smith

#63. The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

Paul Halmos

#64. Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

Pindar

#65. I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.

Beverly Cleary

#66. I want to attract the best people into teaching.

Chuck Schumer

#67. The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you teach, and that your classes consist of eighteen students or fewer. Classes of eighteen students or fewer are a family, and feel and act like one.

Kurt Vonnegut

#68. The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.

Andy Rooney

#69. Teaching is the best way to learn. Never stop learning.

Debasish Mridha

#70. In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Lee Iacocca

#71. Teaching people the best way to market organically with Facebook, is like teaching them the best way to butter bread, with a spoon.

Jim Connolly

#72. Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

Stephen King

#73. If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself.

Bryant McGill

#74. The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.

Ray Liotta

#75. As our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#76. The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.

Shannon L. Alder

#77. If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.

John Lancaster Spalding

#78. Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.

Ravi Zacharias

#79. The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

Benjamin Zander

#80. A student whose life is filled with woes least had and understood the hands of a good teacher that shape lives in a distinctive way

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#81. Experience is the best school,
Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there,
Offering only one lesson called Life,
That you could only finish once you're dead!

Nelson M. Lubao

#82. Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

Janet Erskine Stuart

#83. The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about? ... Controversies about ... teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of mathematics.

Reuben Hersh

#84. In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

Susan Cain

#85. Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#86. All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.

Grover Cleveland

#87. Didn't care if I wasn't paid for working after school for seven months teaching a 9th grader to read, but when he finally could, priceless! The best times in my life were when I went way beyond my paygrade to service students in need.

Ace Antonio Hall