Robert Pinsky Quotes

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

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

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

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

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

I think you never leave what you learn.

It's better to understand something than to memorize something.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

I love the classroom.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that's probably the best way to do it... because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he'll never forget it.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.