“Swap 'why is this happening to me?' to 'what is this trying to teach me?' It will change everything.””— Jay Shetty, twitter.com
“I would tell the students what a thankless fucking job this is, and not to waste their money learning about things that nobody wants to hear about, even when they're paying you to say 'em.”— Liz Tigelaar, Valerie, Michaela Watkins, imdb.com
“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”— Jim Henson, amazon.com
“...do not allow the baby to walk too soon or she will become bowlegged.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He must always be gentle, and quiet, and patient, even when they made mistakes.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”— Stanley Kubrick, en.wikiquote.org
“I don't want lessons, I want practice. I hope it is not pride that makes me so stiff against teaching, but a bad or indifferent teacher is worse than none.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It’s the only thing I do believe in.”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giv…”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“Wisdom can’t be taught and by the same token can’t be learned. Instead, it’s the kind of knowledge you become.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.”— Howard Gardner, questia.com
“The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.”— James Rowland Angell, tumblr.com
“The first task of a competent teacher is to teach his students to acknowledge inconvenient facts. By these I mean facts that are inconvenient for their own personal political views. Such extremely inconvenient facts exist for every political position.”— Max Weber, amazon.com
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“One of the side benefits of being an at-home entrepreneur as a parent is that I can share what I do with my kids and show them first-hand what it's like to build a business, and more importantly the benefit of serving others.”— Pat Flynn, instagram.com
“An academic career is especially helpful to writers in two ways: 1) easy access to magnificent libraries and 2) long vacations.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com