Teaching And Learning Quotes

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

David Langford, illustrates the difference between teaching and
learning in a little story. He says, ‘You know, last Wednesday I
taught my dog to whistle. I really did. I taught him to whistle. It
was hard work. I really went at it very hard. But I taught him to
whistle. Of course, he didn’t learn, but I taught.’

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don’t.

When one teaches, two learn.

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

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

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.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.