Teaching Quotes and Sayings

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
- Anonymous

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.
- William Arthur Ward

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward

Come forth into the light of things; Let nature be your Teacher.
- William Wordsworth

For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don’t want to learn much.
- W. C. Sellar

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

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

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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

I keep six honest serving-men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.
- Rudyard Kipling

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
- Albert Camus

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
- Cicero

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
- Edith Ann

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
- Jacques Martin Barzun

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
- Lady Nancy Astor

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
- Clay P. Bedford

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Louis Hector Berlioz

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
- Louis A. Berman

Html Code to Link