Teaching Learning Quotes (page 7)

• 
• 
• 

• reading
• giving
• cat

People who’ve never read fairy tales, the professor said, have a harder time coping in life than the people who have. They don’t have access to all the lessons that can be learned from the journeys through the dark woods and the kindness of strangers treated decently, the knowledge that can be gained from the company and example of Donkeyskins and cats wearing boots and steadfast tin soldiers. I’m not talking about in-your-face lessons, but more subtle ones. The kind that seep up from your... Charles de Lint

• learning
• teaching and learning
• willfulness

Willing emancipates: for willing is creating: so do I teach. And only for creating shall you learn! Friedrich Nietzsche

• faith
• winning
• chance

But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can. Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin... Robert Kennedy

• love
• life
• him

and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• book
• purpose
• literature

Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh. J. K. Rowling

• dark times
• him
• god

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him. Oswald Chambers

• learning
• teaches
• learns

Those who teach, must never cease to learn John Cotton Dana

• learning
• conditional
• cans

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein

• walking
• world
• hand

If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. Anne Bronte

• children
• fear
• motivation

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. Stanley Kubrick

• heart
• hope
• watch

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems. Benjamin Franklin

• learning
• people
• history

History teaches us that people have never learned anything from history. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• learning
• words
• her

The woman tried to teach Winnet her language, and Winnet learned the words but not the language. Jeanette Winterson

• life
• learning
• school

Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it. Nicholas Sparks

• learning
• forceful
• teaches

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. Peter Drucker