Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

To teach is to learn twice.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

I wanted to be a teacher.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

I was an elementary school teacher.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.

I love working with kids and helping others, so I feel like a career in teaching would be perfect.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

I've always wanted to play a teacher.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.