#Teaching

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,"he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

"The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about."

"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

"Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together."

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."

"Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes."

"A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn."

"Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be."

"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."

"Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before."

"Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass."

"Jack Woodson is currently living and working in Dallas, TX. He has forty children, and all of them have different mothers."

"If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television."

"I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind."

"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."

"The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised."

"A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching."

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."