Teaching Quotes

"And gladly would he learn and gladly teach" "First he wrought, and afterward he taught" "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other" "Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you" "We teach more by what we are than by what we teach" "I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else'" "To aid life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself, that is the basic task of the educator." "The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon." "You can teach someone to make music, but you can't teach them to be an artist." "I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion" "The direction of education is to turn the mind" "Assignments should contain elements of both routine and surprise." "Everything in your life is there to teach you a lesson" "All men are made one for another; either then teach them better or bear with them." "Reviewing the old and deducing the new makes a teacher."