Paulo Coelho Quotes

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.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

I started at Grand View and all the England stuff. I just wanted to learn and get better, and that's kind of what the experiences were.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

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.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.