Selected Quotes on Teaching Fall 2013


10/3

  • Bruce Wilkinson: ``Build the need.'' One of the 7 laws of the learner, courtesy of Timothy Tsai
  • Mark Twain, Taming The Bicycle: ``The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers; and, besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself had done. There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life - life's experiences - are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never knew one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.'' courtesy of Evan Sparks.

    9/26
  • Richard Feynman: ``You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.'' courtesy of Lillian Ratliff
  • Robert Frost: "I am not a teacher, but an awakener." courtesy of Daniel Haas
  • Aristotle: ``The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. '' courtesy of Joe Corea.
  • Bertrand Russell: " When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That's if you want to teach them to think." Courtesy of Xi (Peter) Chen.


    • 9/19
    William Arthur Ward "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." Courtesy of Seyedshahin Ashrafzadeh
    Aristotle: ``Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.'' courtesy of Peng Zheng
    Joseph Joubert: ``To teach is to learn twice over.'' courtesy of Lingqi Wu.
    Bertrand Russell: ``The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt'' courtesy of Joanne Lo.

    9/12
    ``To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'' - from "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson courtesy of Stevo Bailey

    Oscar Wilde: ``Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'' Courtesy Max Balandat

    Selected Quotes on Teaching from Spring 2009

    Current Quotes 4/8/09:

    "Owl," said Rabit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest- and when I say thinking, I mean thinking - you and I must do it" -Rabbit (Character from Winnie the Pooh Stories by A.A. Milne) (Courtesy of Vinayak Nagpal)

    "To teach is to learn twice." -- Joseph Joubert (courtesy of Jaehyun Park)

    (Courtesy of Tim Bakishev)
    "A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep" - Anonymous.
    "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" - Gandhi.

    Current Quotes 4/1/09:

    "Teaching is a process of diminishing lies" -Babak Ayazifar (Courtesy of Sanket Alekar)

    "Education is the best care." (Courtesy of Jiwoong Lee)

    I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. - Socrates (Courtesy of Don Frederick)

    Quote: I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. (Courtesy of Jodi Iwata)

    Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
    A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. (Courtesy of Haifei Cheng)

    ``A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.'' -- Ernest L. Boyer (Courtesy of Tsung-Te Liu)

    Current Quotes 3/18/09:

    "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge", Albert Einstein (Courtesy of Vadim Karagodsky)

    Current Quotes 3/11/09:

    Courtesy of Arash Jamshidi
    Richard Feynman was once asked by a Caltech faculty member to explain why spin one-half particles obey Fermi Dirac statistics. Rising to the challenge, he said, "I'll prepare a freshman lecture on it." But a few days later he told the faculty member, "You know, I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we really don't understand it." (Excerpt from the book Six Easy Pieces)

    I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something; I'm making some contribution" -- it's just psychological. (Richard Feynman excerpt from the book Surely you are joking, Mr. Feynman)

    Courtesy of Dusan Stepanovic
    1. You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. -- Aristophenes
    2. If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing. --Sir James Matthew Barrie
    3.The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. ~Author Unknown

    Current Quotes 3/4/09:

    Courtesy of Thura Lin Naing
    1. "If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. " ~Tryon Edwards
    2. "A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron." ~Horace Mann
    3. "A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations." ~Patricia Neal
    4. "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." ~William Arthur Ward
    5. "A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." ~Thomas Carruthers

    Current Quotes 2/25/09:

    "There must be, in any crowd, someone who can teach me." -- Confucious (courtesy of David Chen)

    ``A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.'' - Henry Adams (courtesy of David McGrogan)
    "Never try to teach a pig to sing....it wastes your time and annoys the pig." Anonymous (courtesy of David McGrogan)

    Current Quotes 2/18/09:

    ``Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.'' - Confucius (courtesy of Nathan Tom)

    Current Quotes 2/11/09:

    ``I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.'' - Mark Twain (Courtesy of Sarah Wodin-Schwartz)