#Teaching

"Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality."

"An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality."

"What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less."

"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."

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

"We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why."

"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not."

"I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra"

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

"Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it,"yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation."

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

"Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own."

"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."

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

"I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley."

"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

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

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."

"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."