Teaching Quotes

"To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do." "The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences." "In seed time learn in harvest teach in winter enjoy" "The educator has the duty of not being neutral" "The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator." "Never do for a child what he is capable of doing for himself." "The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover" "Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves" "The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves" "The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn" "Don't limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time." "Don't just teach your children to read, teach them to question what they read" "People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons." "I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage." "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be " "We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate those" "Good conduct arises out of good doctrine" "The burned hand teaches best" "The ultimate test of your knowledge is your capacity to convey it to another" "If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them"