Isaac Stern Quotes

The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

Those who are obligated to learn are obligated to teach

One of the reasons I like to teach is that I like to pass things on. That's an unspoken law of show business.

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.

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

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

In high school, one of the things I loved doing was this after-school program where you would teach computer skills to some of the maintenance folks at school.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportunity to teach. When you teach others, you teach yourself.

It's always fun to pass on what I've learned to the younger people.

True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

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

We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.

My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.

I think it is so important to pass down knowledge and information to younger generations.

I am looking forward to sharing the knowledge I have accumulated as a player, coach and member of the working media with the students at the Cronkite School.

The cool thing about this business is taking the knowledge you've gained that people have passed onto you and then you pass it along to the next generation.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

It is one thing that I get a lot of joy out of, and that is passing the torch. Some stuff I show young wrestlers, people haven't seen in 15 years. I show it to them and the gratification I get is when I see them do it out there in a match.

That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.