60 Teaching Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing teaching sayings.
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Short Teaching Sayings
“To teach is to learn twice over.” —Joseph Joubert
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” —Jacques Barzun
“Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” —W.B. Yeats
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” —Mark Van Doren
“When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.” —Marva Collins
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” —Mark Van Doren
“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.” —Phil Collins
“Teaching is the highest form of understanding.” —Aristotle
“The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” —Unknown
“Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.” —Abraham Lincoln
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” —Mark Van Doren
“You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.” —Aristophenes
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” —Aristotle
“The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.” —Dejan Stojanovic
“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” —Aristotle
“Love teaches a man what he is. Hate teaches him what he is not.” —Joshua Aaron Guillory
“Experience teaches only the teachable.” —Aldous Huxley
“He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” —Richard Henry Dann
“Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.” —Unknown
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” —Socrates
“To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.” —Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Teaching Sayings
“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” —Albert Einstein
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.” —Gail Goldwins
“Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.” —Paulo Coelho
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” —Galileo Galilei
“Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” —Ignacio Estrada
“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
“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.” —Joseph Campbell
“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.” —James Baldwin
“Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.” —Amit Ray
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” —E. M. Forster
“We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.” —Sasha Azevedo
“You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true.” —Richelle E. Goodrich
“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” —Unknown
“You can’t really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.” —Dave Cullen
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” —Josef Albers
“Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.” —Horace Mann
“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.” —Jacques Barzun
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.” —Unknown
“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” —John Steinbeck
“Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.” —Anne Bishop
“Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.” —Chinese Proverb
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” —William Arthur Ward
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” —Benjamin Franklin
“All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life.” —Ming-Dao Deng
“Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” —Jim Henson
“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.” —Elbert Hubbard
“The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.” —Unknown
“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
Top Ten Teaching Sayings
Here you will find top ten teaching sayings selected by our team.
- “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.” —Phil Collins
- “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” —Socrates
- “A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.” —James Baldwin
- “I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” —Albert Einstein
- “Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- “Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” —John Steinbeck
- “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” —Jim Henson
- “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” —E. M. Forster
- “You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” —Galileo Galilei
- “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” —Benjamin Franklin
