Famous Quotes on Teaching

Over 15,000 quotations and famous quotes.

QuoteWorld :: Teaching Search in this category

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next >>
Quote	Author	Rating	Rate
"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait."	A. Whitney Brown
"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example."	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up."	Phyllis
"Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes."	(George) Norman Douglas
"In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld."	Peter F(erdinand) Drucker
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."	Abba Eban
"From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty." (On signing law for inclusion of the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, 14 Jun 54)"	Dwight David Eisenhower
"We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized."	Elliot Wayne Eisner
"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."	Epictetus
"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn."	Ignacio Estrada
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least."	David P(ierpont) Gardner
"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."	Baltasar Gracian
"We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell 'jump shot' rather than how to shoot it."	Larry Hawkins
"I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."	Goldie Hawn
"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next >>

Browse Teaching quotes by Author:

Abba Eban	Abbe Dimnet	Abraham Lincoln
Adolf Hitler	Alben William Barkley	Albert Einstein
Aldous Leonard Huxley	Alec Bourne	Alexandre Dumas
Alvin Barkley	Amos Bronson Alcott	Anatole France
Andre Malraux	Anna James	Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Aristophenes	Aristotle	Athenæus
A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti	A. Whitney Brown	Baltasar Gracian
Barbara Colorose	Barnaby C. Keeney	Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin Jowett	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
Bertrand Russell	Bill Beattie	Bishop Creighton
Bradley Miller	Bruce Lee	Buddha
Carl Gustav Jung	Charles Caleb Colton	Charles Mathias, Jr.
Charlotte Bronte	Child Age 7	Christa McAuliffe
Chuang-Tzu	Clay P. Bedford	Clive Staples Lewis
Confucius	C. Wright Mills	David P(ierpont) Gardner
Derek Curtis Bok	Doris Lessing	Dorothea Lange
Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dwight David Eisenhower	Edgar Albert Guest
Edith Ann	Edith Hamilton	Edmund Burke
Edward Everett	Edward Morgan Forster	Elbert Hubbard
Eldridge Cleaver	Ellen Gilcrist	Elliot Wayne Eisner
Epictetus	Erich Fromm	Ernest Dimnet
Ernest Leroy Boyer	Ernest Miller Hemingway	E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.	Fran Lebowitz	Francis Keppel
Gail	Galileo Galilei	Geoffrey Holder
George Burns	George Eliot	George Lorimer
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Goldie Hawn
Grayson Kirk	Heinrich Heine	Helen Adams Keller
Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Anatole Grunwald	Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Louis Mencken	Henry Peter Brougham	Henry St. John Bolingbroke
Herbert Clark Hoover	Horace Mann	Ignacio Estrada
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Martin Barzun	James Abram Garfield
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Truslow Adams	Jerome Seymour Bruner
Joel H. Hildebrand	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Keats
John Anthony Ciardi	John Burroughs	John Calvin
John Cotton Dana	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Holt
John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Addison	Joseph Joubert
J(ohn) Edgar Hoover	Kahlil Gibran	Karl Kraus
Kurt Herbert Alder	Kwan-Tzu	Lady Nancy Astor
Larry Hawkins	Lawrence Kubie	Lawrence Peter Berra
Leonardo da Vinci	Leon Lessinger	Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca
Louis A. Berman	Louis Dembitz Brandeis	Lyndon Baines Johnson
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Maria Montessori	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Mark McGee
Martin Luther	Mary Ingraham Bunting	Matthew Arnold
Maya Angelou	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides	Muhammad Ali	Nadia Boulanger
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela	Noam Chomsky	Norman Cousins
Otto Kleppner	Paul Anderson	Paul E. Gray
Paul Karl Feyerabend	Peter Cochrane	Peter F(erdinand) Drucker
Peter Marshall	Phyllis	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard David Bach	Richard Fenyman	Robert Edward Lee
Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Lee Frost	Robert Maynard Hutchins
Ron Dart	Russell Greene	Russell Hoban
R. J. Baughan	Saint Thomas Aquinas	Sandra Cisneros
Saul Bellow	Saying Folk	Shirley Mount Hufstedler
Simondes of Ceos	Sir James Matthew Barrie	Sir John Lubbock
Smiley Blanton	Stanley Kubrick	Stanley Lindquist
Stephen Neill	Susanna Moodie	S. Barry Lipkin
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Carruthers	Thomas Henry Huxley
Timothy Leary	Truman Capote	Tryon Edwards
Ulysses S. Grant	Vartan Gregorian	Vernon Law
Victor Hugo	Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve	Walter Bagehot
Walter Savage Landor	Walt(er) Elias Disney	Warren G. Bennis
Wayne Knight	William Hazlitt	William Jennings Bryan
William Adams	William Ellery Channing	William James "Will" Durant
William John Bennett	William Ralph Inge	William Torrey Harris
Wilson Mizner	Woody Allen	(George) Norman Douglas
(John) Calvin Coolidge	(Louis) Hector Berlioz	Æschylus