Quotes about Teaching
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
- William Osler
It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.
- John Wooden
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.
- St. Basil
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what's closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.
- Alistair Begg
Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.
- Albert Mohler
No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.
- Max Lucado
Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
- Jonathan Edwards
Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
- Herbert Hoover
Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.
- George Lucas