93 quotes found
“I cant teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.”
“One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.”
“Shabelsky: O mind of genius, you think up things for everyone and teach everyone, but why not for once teach me... Teach me, great brain, show me the way out...”
“Was I gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this morning and afternoon? Not to decieve myself, I must reply -- No: I felt desolate to a degree. I fe...”
“So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That's probably why the two are so ...”
“Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished”
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”
“It's not the teaching, it's the learning.”
“You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.”
“A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.”
“You cannot teach a man anything you can only help him to find it within himself.”
“Public instruction should be the first object of government.”
“I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I...”
“People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.”
“I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evapo...”
“To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.”
“I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.”
“You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?”
“Teaching is bringing the news.”
