Taching Quotes The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.     Amos Bronson Alcott Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.     Chinese Proverb If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.     Tryon Edwards The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.     Anatole France Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.     Gail Godwin Experience teaches only the teachable.     Aldous Huxley Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.     Bertrand Russell For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.     W_C_Sellar and R. J. Yeatman He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.     George Bernard Shaw Previous Subject - Taxes | Next Subject - Technology