Teaching Quotes

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." "Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation." "Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." "Tell me and I forget teach me and I may remember involve me and I learn" "Good acting should teach people to understand each other better" "I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think" "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel" "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted" "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school" "The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn" "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." "My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers." "I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you." "Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual." "Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep." "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." "The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher." "Warren and I have skills that could easily be taught to other people. In fact, some people are using them already. But they tend to be uncommon skills" "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."