Arno Penzias Quotes

Once in a while, I have the chance to speak to students. I learn from them as much as they learn from me. It's a great dialogue to create.

I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

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

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

The most valuable aid I have found in teaching is to remember my own experiences as a student.

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

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

When one teaches, two learn.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

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.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.

Going to school is not really education. It's really who's in front of the classrooms and who's endearing themselves to the kids and who's making the kids want to learn and who's inspiring them to be curious about any topic in the world.

It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor. In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.

There's always something that you can learn and something you can teach.

I don't think there's ever a wrong answer as long as people are willing to learn, share. You're never done learning.

I don't envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.