Benjamin Whichcote Quotes

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

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

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

I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

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

To teach is to learn twice.

I love the classroom.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

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.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

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

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

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.

You know, master classes are essentially extended Q&As. That's how I always approach them. I don't mean to downplay it. It's just that I never fancy myself as someone who is taking a class. 'Master class' insinuates a teacher, and I'm not one.

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

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

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

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.