John Ruskin Quotes

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

My parents had a strong impact on who I am today. My mother and dad both encouraged us to think about the long term - where you wanted to be - to think about education, to think about what is right and what is wrong, and to do things that will help you in the long run.

My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.

I told my mom I wanted to buy roses for my teachers so I'm pretty sure my son'll be that way too.

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.

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.