For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn—much.

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More quotations tagged with “teaching”

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

—W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman

Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition.

—Tryon Edwards

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

—Chinese proverb

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

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

History

11 Jul 2015 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

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For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.