Teaching Quotes

“A nanosecond is the time it takes for light to travel 11.8 inches.”

“We have to stop evangelizing and start teaching. Evangelism is for people who have a religion. We have a body of engineering practice.”

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

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

“The coach is the teacher.”

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”

“What is the most important thing you can teach a student? How to learn.”

“A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it.”

“A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.”

“To be a teacher is to be a learner.”

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

“The art of education is to make the individual's own experience the starting-point of all instruction.”

“The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts—I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.”

“The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher.”

“The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.”

“The greatest thing about being a teacher is seeing that moment when a kid's eyes light up, when they get it.”

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”

“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.”

“Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.”

“Sincere, simple appreciation is one of the most effective and yet least used teaching tools.”