Teaching And Learning Quotes

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement.

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.

Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

[America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet?

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.