Gloria Steinem Quotes

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.

There's always something that you can learn and something you can teach.

To teach is to learn twice.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

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.

I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

It's always fun to pass on what I've learned to the younger people.

Once in a while, I have the chance to speak to students. I learn from them as much as they learn from me. It's a great dialogue to create.

I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.

I think it is so important to pass down knowledge and information to younger generations.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

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.

When one teaches, two learn.

A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.