Tertullian Quotes

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

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.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

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

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

If you want to edify, you have to entertain.

If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at university. I do a lot of outreach to try and improve general scientific literacy, but the core of all scientific literacy is just literacy.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.