Teachers Quotes



You cannot teach anyone anything unless they are willing to learn.


If you're being mentored, absorb like a sponge. The lessons will become more significant as the years go by. Robert Steele, Motivated Magazine

Teachers who respect students talk with them, not at them.
Deborah Norville, The Power Of Respect

A basic truism I have discovered over twenty years of coaching and training is that most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
David Allen, Getting Things Done; The Art Of Stress-Free Productivity

Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Richard Bach

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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Marva Collins

They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carol Buchner

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

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
Anatole France

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

Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.
John Ruskin

Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb

By learning you will teach;by teaching you will understand.
Latin Proverb

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

We learn by teaching.
James Howell



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