Teaching Learning Quotes

Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started. ~ Quint Studer

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a teacher and parent, I've had a very personal interest in seeking new ways of teaching. Like most other teachers and parents, I've been well aware painfully so, at times that the whole teaching/learning process is extraordinarily imprecise, most of the time a hit-and-miss operation. Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they learn may not be what we intended to teach them at all. ~ Betty Edwards

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Don't stop learning because life doesn't stop teaching. ~ Oscar Auliq-Ice

Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love-that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to perform up to their real capabilities. ~ Jan Carlzon

To go faster you must slow down. ~ John Brunner

One barrier ... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. ~ David Perkins

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother. ~ Charles M. Schulz

What we want ... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own. ~ Howard Gardner

We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage ... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it. ~ Howard Gardner

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach. ~ Margaret Mead

If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential. ~ Steve Rizzo

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming? ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Knowledge exists to be imparted. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It may well be easier to remember a list if one sings it (or dances to it). However, these uses of the 'materials' of an intelligence are essentially trivial. What is not trivial is the capacity to think musically. ~ Howard Gardner

Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished ~ Carol Ann Tomlinson

Let the main object ... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more. ~ John Amos Comenius

Talent comes with an individual name tag. ~ Charles Handy

Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. ~ John Holt

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us. ~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy. ~ Myron Tribus

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching. ~ Gautama Buddha

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education. ~ John F. Kennedy

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide ~ Viktor E. Frankl

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it. ~ David Suzuki

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field. ~ Jerome Bruner

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. ~ George Bernard Shaw

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it. ~ Andy Hargreaves

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring. ~ Johann Friedrich Herbart

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance. ~ Benjamin Zander

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism ... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. ~ Henry Seidel Canby

Teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes. ~ Morgan Llywelyn

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw. ~ John Goodlad

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

As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, or enticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again ~ Lee S Shulman

We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map. ~ Guy Claxton

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities. ~ Marva Collins

It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence of training is causing another to do. Teaching gives knowledge. Training gives skill. Teaching fills the mind. Training shapes the habits. Teaching brings to the child that which he did not have before. Training enables a child to make use of that which is already his possession. ~ Henry Clay Trumbull

What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything. ~ Werner Erhard

To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts. ~ David Bohm

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing. ~ Abraham Maslow

We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools ... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.' ~ David Perkins

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point ... ~ Quint Studer

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. ~ Mao Zedong

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them. ~ Guy Claxton

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students. ~ Mortimer Adler

We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention. ~ Marilyn Ferguson

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in. ~ Howard Gardner

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future. ~ Gordon Brown

We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear ~ Peggy Noonan

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive. ~ John Dewey

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can. ~ Charles Handy

Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching. ~ Michael Bennet

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day! ~ Paul Gauguin

In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen. ~ David Perkins

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings. ~ Andy Hargreaves

The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously ... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize. ~ David Perkins

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined. ~ John Ralston Saul

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive. ~ Terence Conran

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time. ~ Tom Peters

Example is better than precept. ~ Margaret Halsey

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation ~ Jerome Bruner

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life. ~ Peter Block

But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins. ~ William Ellery Channing

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence. ~ Hillary Clinton

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching. ~ Harri Holkeri

We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the Muslims - and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam - that caused our present decay. ~ Muhammad Asad

School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and chords, but learning songs and playing with other young musicians, and getting out on stage ... I was so impressed that my daughter Cheyenne goes to School of Rock on Long Island. ~ Dee Snider

What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains? ~ Walt Whitman

This is the unmistakable teaching of the Gita. He who gives up action falls. He who gives up only the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result. In regard to every action one must know the result that is expected to follow, the means thereto, and the capacity for it. He, who, being thus equipped, is without desire for the result and is yet wholly engrossed in the due fulfillment of the task before him is said to have renounced the fruits of his action. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Dymphna's talk of concentration camp survivors reminds you that you are super-privileged and self-absorbed and that really your suffering doesn't mean much by comparison.
'You have to choose how you respond to your own suffering. Everyone has to find meaning.'
'Everyone is full of shit,' you want to say, but you don't. You are learning not to say such things. This is what is meant by well-adjusted. ~ Suzanne Scanlon

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings. ~ Osamu Dazai

The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli's sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply told, often so glorious in their colors. ~ Paula Modersohn-Becker

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments. ~ Alison Gopnik

Never feel sorry for me, just teach me and watch me grow. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Water conservation goes hand in hand with education. Teaching people that if you literally run the water while you brush your teeth - we go through 602 million gallons a day of waste in the United States because people are used to hearing the water run while they brush their teeth. ~ Ian Somerhalder

Never ... stop at the boundaries of what you think your knowledge or training would suggest. If a problem grabs you, run with it and try to understand it from beginning to end, even if that means learning new techniques or developing them yourself. ~ Judith Rodin

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Learning is essential for living the life you love. ~ A.D. Posey

Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive. ~ David DuChemin

It's the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It's the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And ~ Malcolm Gladwell

All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings. ~ Frederick Lenz

So the fundamental question before the church is who is Lord? Is the church the lord of Jesus Christ, so that it has liberty to edit and manipulate, accepting what it likes and rejecting what it dislikes? Or is Jesus Christ our Teacher and our Lord, so that we believe and obey his teaching? He still says to us, 'Why do you call me, "Lord, Lord," and do not do what I say?' (Luke 6:46). To confess Jesus as Lord but not obey him is to build our lives on a foundation of sand. Again, 'Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me,' he said in the upper room (John 14:21). Here then are two cultures and two value systems, two standards and two lifestyles. On the one side there is the fashion of the world around us; on the other side is the revealed, good and pleasing will of God. Radical disciples have little difficulty in making their choice. ~ John R.W. Stott

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears. ~ Andy Hargreaves

What are you doing to me?" he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. "I can't fly!" You're flying right now. "I'm falling!" Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said. ~ George R R Martin

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to "surround yourself with people who are better than you," and I was now living that mantra. ~ Kimberly Novosel

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever? ~ Jean Thompson

People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water. ~ James Baldwin

It is not really a "Negro revolution" that is upsetting the country. What is upsetting the country is a sense of its own identity. If, for example, one managed to change the curriculum in all the schools so that Negroes learned more about themselves and their real contributions to this culture, you would be liberating not only Negroes, you'd be liberating white people who know nothing about their own history. And the reason is that if you are compelled to lie about one aspect of anybody's history, you must lie about it all. If you have to lie about my real role here, if you have to pretend that I hoed all that cotton just because I loved you, then you have done something to yourself. You are mad. ~ James Baldwin

Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child. ~ Deepa Bhushan

I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it. ~ Mary Karr

So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience. ~ Bindi Irwin

Yeah, and we still have to deal with The Eye being ... Eyeish, and me learning to be Head of the Council, which will probably involve lots of boring books and - " Archer pressed his mouth to mine, effectively shutting me up and kissing the hell out of me. When he pulled back, he was grinning. "And you have an arrogant, screwed-up former demon hunter who is stupidly in love with you. ~ Rachel Hawkins

. . . anyone who wants to elaborate relevant liberation theology must be prepared to go into the 'examination hall' of the poor. Only after sitting on the benches of he humble will he or she be entitled to enter a school of 'higher learning. ~ Leonardo Boff And Clodovis Boff