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Teach/er/ing Quotes

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People learn best, not by being told, but by experiencing the consequences of their thoughts and actions.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves then by those found by others.

– Blaise Pascal

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

– General George S. Patton

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

– Bertrand Russell

Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

– Robert A. Heinlein

Learning isnt something that just takes place in the classroom. It happens every minute of your life!

– Grant M. Bright

Learning is the ultimate freedom.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

– Thomas Szasz

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family.

– Rudy Manikan

If the role of a teacher is what you’ve sought, Know that by your students you’ll be taught!

– Grant M. Bright

I hear and I think. I see and I remember. I do and I know.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

– An English Professor

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for today. Teach a man how to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime.

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

– WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Effective trainers use a variety of activities to promote not only memory but also encourage understanding and application of the information learned.

– Good & Brophy

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

– Malcolm Forbes

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

– Laurence J. Peter

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

– Laurence J. Peter

Creative minds have been always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

At the end of each day, the average person can remember: 11% of what they heard that day 30% of what they saw 50% of what they heard and saw 90% of what they did

An instructor should be an elicitor of relevant responses.

All of us have something to learn. All of us have something to teach.

Adults learn best by doing.

A true Master is not the one with most students, but one who creates the most Masters. A true leader is not the one with most followers, but one who creates the most leaders. A true teacher is not the one with the most knowledge, but one who causes the most others to have knowledge.

– Neale Donald Walsch

A teacher can never really TEACH unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame.

A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.

– Henry Brooks Adams

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

– George Santayana