Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old teaching quotes, teaching sayings, and teaching proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.Randy Pausch
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Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.William Glasser
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Teaching is of more importance than urging.Martin Luther
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Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.Albert Einstein
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Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.Dr. Charlie W. Shedd
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Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.John Dewey
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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.Tryon Edwards
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True teaching is not that which gives knowledge, but that which stimulates pupils to gain it.John Milton Gregory
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.Oscar Wilde
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Teaching is truth mediated by personality.Phyllis Brooks
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Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.Dalai Lama XIV
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Experience teaches only the teachable.Aldous Huxley
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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.Henri Frederic Amiel
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Teaching does not come from a political mandate ... it comes from the heart.Robert John Meehan
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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
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.Galileo Galilei
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To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.Louis Sullivan
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron.Horace Mann
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The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.B.B. King
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Teach a child how to think, not what to think.Sidney Sugarman
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Teaching is an art, not a science, principally because it involves human beings, their emotions and their values.Gilbert Highet
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.Peter F. Drucker
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Teaching is the systematic inculcation of knowledge.John Milton Gregory
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.Benjamin Whichcote
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There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.Lola May
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Every day that you teach you have two options: be focused, passionate and caring, or to be focused, passionate and caring.Robert John Meehan
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There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.Shunryu Suzuki
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.Gail Godwin
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Teaching is unlikely to change until teachers, and all educators, recognize that it can be studied and improved.James W. Stigler @ James Hiebert