Ray Bradbury Quotes

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing-perhaps in particular if we learned nothing-our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.

Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves.

Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.

We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.

I was determined to know beans.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.