Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

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.

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

You know, master classes are essentially extended Q&As. That's how I always approach them. I don't mean to downplay it. It's just that I never fancy myself as someone who is taking a class. 'Master class' insinuates a teacher, and I'm not one.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

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

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

I love the classroom.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

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

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

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.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

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

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.