Helen Suzman Quotes

The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

Education, this is the great word which sums up our whole doctrine

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

When you teach, you learn.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

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

There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

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.

My teaching is my legacy.

Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

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.

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

What do they teach them at these schools?

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of a sudden, you play yourself and then you say, my goodness, I don't need a teacher. I'm my own teacher. Then I can react to what I'm doing immediately. It really improves.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

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

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

Men learn while they teach.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.