Albert Einstein Quotes

There is no teaching to compare with example.

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

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

The best thing we can do for other people is by example and not by preaching

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.

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

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.

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of Lofton Greene - he was a guy that my dad was familiar with. He was from our hometown. And I watched the game and I said I didn't see this guy doing a lot of coaching. And my dad told me, well, it's just like a teacher - which he was - he said if you do a good job teaching during the week, when they take the test on Friday, that's not the time you have to do a lot of demonstrative things.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Example is better than precept.

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.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.