Teaching Quotes (101) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Definition of Teaching. The act or profession of a person who teaches. Something that is taught. Often, teachings. doctrines or precepts
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"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
~ Khalil Gibran
"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."
~ Swami Vivekananda
"I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching."
~ Marianne Williamson
"The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'"
~ Neale Donald Walsch
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."
~ Aristotle
"Love yourself and be awake today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, then teach others, and so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked you must first do the harder thing--straighten yourself. You are the only master. Who else? Subdue yourself and discover your master."
~ Buddha
"Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach out children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children."
~ Pablo Casals
"Teach them how to fly."
~ Dan Chesbro
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher."
~ Pema Chodron
"I like to learn, but I don’t like to be taught."
~ Winston Churchill
"The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another."
~ Marva Collins
"I'd rather teach one bird to sing than ten thousand stars how not to dance."
~ E. E. Cummings
"I do not teach children. I give them joy."
~ Isadora Duncan
"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully."
~ Tryon Edwards
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
~ Albert Einstein
"Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward."
~ Benjamin Franklin
"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."
~ Robert Frost
"Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."
~ Elain Heffner
"To teach is to learn twice."
~ Joseph Joubert
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched out human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
~ Carl Jung
"To fully nurture the creative potential of others requires modeling the behaviors, attitudes and actions consistant with a creative learner. Development of one's creative expression is therefore first."
~ Susan Keller-Mathers
"Everyone and everything around you is your teacher."
~ Ken Keyes, Jr.
"We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear."
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs."
~ Michael Levine
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But, you learn, by God, you learn."
~ C.S. Lewis
"Art teaches nothing but the significance of life."
~ Henry Miller
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
~ Maria Montessori
"Surprises are the joy of living. Surprises directly touch the soul. Good surprises energize and bad surprises teach."
~ Alev Oguz
"To teach is to learn."
~ Japanese Proverb
"Creativity is for us all - it's about you, me, and about everyday life. It is about the abundant originality we manifest, and our flexible improvisations, whether teaching a class, raising our kids, fixing the car, helping a client, landscaping the yard, planning a benefit, or trying to figure out why we're on earth."
~ Ruth Richards
"Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself."
~ Sir Ken Robinson
"The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer."
~ Alice Wellington Rollins
"You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you."
~ Sathya Sai Baba
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
~ Socrates
"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."
~ John Steinbeck
"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."
~ Mark Twain
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
~ William Arthur Ward
"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."
~ Colleen Wilcox
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
~ Oscar Wilde
"Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher."
~ William Wordsworth
"Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire."
~ William Butler Yeats
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
~ Paulo Coelho
In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.
~ David Perkins
Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.
~ William Arthur Ward
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
~ Josef Albers
I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.
~ Phil McGraw
Learning never exhausts the mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
~ Euripides
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
~ Robert Frost
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
~ Dan Rather
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
~ Galileo Galilei
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
~ Walt Disney
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
~ Carl Jung
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
~ Harvey S. Firestone
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
~ Euripides
The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
~ Benjamin Zander
A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.
~ Peter Schjeldahl
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
~ Margaret Fuller
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
~ Samuel Beckett
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
~ James A. Garfield
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
~ Og Mandino
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~ William Arthur Ward
All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
~ John Dewey
luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.
~ Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
~ Tom Peters
Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.
~ Peter Senge
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
~ Michelangelo
My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
~ Seneca the Younger
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
~ Robert Frost
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
~ Carl Rogers
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
~ John Jay Chapman
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
~ Plato
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
~ Warren G. Bennis
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
~ George Washington Carver
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
~ Confucius
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
~ Robert Frost
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
~ Marva Collins
Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.
~ Geoffrey Holder
My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.
~ William Shakespeare
The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
~ Alfie Kohn
Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.
~ David Perkins
Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation
~ Jerome Bruner
Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.
~ Myron Tribus
Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
~ Viktor E. Frankl
The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.
~ Jerome Bruner
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