Teaching Quotes

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Experience teaches only the teachable.

- Aldous Huxley

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

- Adrienne Warren

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

- Abdul Raoulf

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

- A'Quonesia Franklin

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

Passive acceptance of the teacher`s wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

- Bertrand Russell

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

- Oscar Wilde

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

- George Bernard Shaw

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

- Andy Dingley

Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.

- Martin Dansky

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

- Nancy Willard

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

- Robert Heinlein