Nido Qubein Quotes

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say.

In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty.

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

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.

As one who has taught mathematics at all levels of university instruction, I am well aware of the negative attitude of so many students toward the subject. There are many reasons for this, one of them no doubt being the esoteric, dry way in which we teach the subject. We tend to overwhelm our students with formulas, definitions, theorems, and proofs, but we seldom mention the historical evolution of these facts, leaving the impression that these facts were handed to us, like the Ten Commandments, by some divine authority.

People don't understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn't wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.

The way that I teach now is just by listening. I listen a lot.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

What do they teach them at these schools?

When you teach, you learn.

Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?" "Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?" "What's the difference?" "That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?" -Jacen & Vergere

Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

I love to teach - that's my role.

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'

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

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.