Teaching Art Quotes

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.

Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.

In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

When one teaches, two learn.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.

Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art, athletics, and music. He was a student of peace and he embodied peace. Sri Chinmoy was a great man and his life's work significantly helped to build world harmony and will continue to do so.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

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.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this experience, you have to really go back to the fundamentals.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

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

Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

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.

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.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized.