If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others.
—Tryon Edwards in A Dictionary of Thoughts
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
—Albert Einstein
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
—Henry Adams
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
—Gail Godwin
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
—Winston Churchill
If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.
—Alice Miller
Love is a better teacher than duty.
—Albert Einstein
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
—Ivan Illich
I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.
—David Foster Wallace
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
—Amos Bronson Alcott
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
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
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
—Chinese proverb
Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition.
—Tryon Edwards
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
—W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman