Quotes by Teaching To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student. Jean-Francois de La Harpe studentsteachingteacher Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau recoveryteachinghere-i-am It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’ Jean Guitton teachinghumanityblow It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition. Jean Houston empoweringteachingpeople Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment. Jean Houston parentteachingteacher Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently. Jean de la Bruyere ignoranceteachingmen Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves. Jean Piaget realteachingchildren Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered. Jean Piaget creatingteachingmean The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply. Jean Piaget teachingtryingschool Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly? Jean-Jacques Rousseau laughterteachingheart It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact, I became particularly aware if the dangers of speculation ... It's so much easier than digging out the facts. You sit in your office and build a system. But with my training in biology, I felt this kind of undertaking precarious. Jean Piaget officeteachingphilosophy Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves. Jean Smith supportteachingpractice In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the forms and demonstrations of geometry, on the theories and calculations of arithmetic ... In a word, the theory of proportions is for industrial teaching, what algebra is for the most elevated mathematical teaching. Jean-Victor Poncelet teachingsuccessscience As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. Jean-Paul Sartre philosophicalteachingteacher One may receive the information but miss the teaching. Jean Toomer teachingmissingmay We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job. Jean Rostand teachingjobsmen I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human. Jean Vanier psychologyflowteaching Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery. Jeff Atwood masterypeersteaching The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy-angles leading their flocks out of the darkness. Jeannette Walls strongteachingteacher All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide. Jean-Jacques Rousseau teachingmenneeds«7980818283848586878889»
