Gertrude Stein Quotes

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

I give the children education.

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

It is much better to want a teacher than to want the desire to learn.

A teacher is better than two books.

It's good to have a good teacher, but you always need a pretty good student.

Books are absent teachers.

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.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

Men learn while they teach.

To teach is to learn twice.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Great teachers transcend ideology.

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

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

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

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.