Bertolt Brecht Quotes

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator.

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

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

To teach is to learn twice.

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

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

I think you never stop learning.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

You keep learning all the time.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

I need to learn every day.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

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

While we teach, we learn.

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

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

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.