Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'

I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers.

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

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.

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

Teachers are free to teach, but not to preach—to educate but not to indoctrinate.

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

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.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach more than basketball. You teach life skills. The teaching part of it is something that I am passionate about. I look forward to every practice. A lot of people say well, I enjoy coaching, but I see myself as more as a teacher.

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

When you teach, you learn.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

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 teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.