William James Quotes

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

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

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.

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

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.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

I wanted to be a teacher.

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.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

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

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

I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

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

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.