#Teaching

"The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids."

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."

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

"[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."

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

"Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive."

"Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known."

"Teach me to dance and I'll show you how to make love to music. The first 30 minutes are free, but after that I'm gonna have to charge you."

"What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say."

"I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years,"she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade."

"If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself."

"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."

"The task of teaching has never been more complex and the expectations that burden teachers are carried out in antiquated systems that offer little support—and yet, teachers are finding success every day."

"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."

"Correct teaching brings out human excellence."

"When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth"

"Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results."

"She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis."

"But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world."

"I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world."