Quotes by Teaching True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery. Helen Keller readingteachingbook Old teachers never die, they just grade away. Henny Youngman assessmentteachingteacher Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. Henry Seidel Canby learningteachingteacher History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke geography-and-historyteachingphilosophy I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke teachingphilosophythinking The production of knowledge in schools today is instrumental, wedded to objective outcomes, privatized, and is largely geared to produce consuming subjects. The organizational structures that make such knowledge possible enact serious costs on any viable notion of critical education and critical pedagogy. Teachers are deskilled, largely reduced to teaching for the test, business culture organizes the governance structures of schooling, knowledge is viewed as a commodity, and students are treated reductively as both consumers and workers. Henry Giroux teachingteacherschool The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. Henry Adams studyignoranceteaching Religious teaching in the past has dealt mainly with preparing people for the next world. This is of course of the utmost importance, but we should not allow it to blind us to the fact that there is a Power that can make this life perfect also. Henry Thomas Hamblin teachingreligiouspast The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised. Henri Nouwen teachingjourneylove Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night. Henry David Thoreau teachingsummernight The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life. Herbert Hoover teachingreligiousspring The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters. H. L. Mencken teachingreligiouswar Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and allow their respective life experiences to be their primary and most valuable source of growth and maturation. It asks for a mutual trust in which those who teach and those who want to learn can become present to each other, not as opponents, but as those who share in the same struggle and search for the same truth. Henri Nouwen communicationteachingteacher Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time. Hermann Ebbinghaus learningtechnologyteaching Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation. Hermann Weyl creativeteachingmath You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and doing things for others; being an instrument of that cause. That is the secret teaching. Frederick Lenz teachingsecretfun When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged. Henri Nouwen teachinghomefeels An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear. Friedrich Nietzsche educatorteachingthinking Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower. Hilary Mason programteachinggiving Education has for its object the formation of character. Herbert Spencer learningteachingeducation«6566676869707172737475»
