Educational Quotes

1-      In learning you will teach and in teaching you will learn. Phil Colins

When you are learning something new, you might be thinking about it in a way your teacher did not. So, you are teaching your teacher. As teachers, you are learning from your students from the way they interact with the subject and even when you are planning.

2-      Those who know do, those who understand teach. Aristotle

This is true. Not any one can be a good teacher. Many times, we feel that some people have the knowledge. However, they do not have the way to transfer it to you. It might be because they don’t understand it in order to be able to explain it.

3-      The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who learned how to learn, unlearn, and change directions instantly, and start all over again, if your soul calls for it. Michelle Casto

To be a smart person, you should be able to construct knowledge by yourself. You also should be able to forget what you learned before if it seemed to be wrong. Moreover, you should be able to have the determination to start from the zero if you are convinced that this would help you. These seem to be easy but they are not. You should have a strong determination to be able to do so.

4-      When you study great teachers, you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their styles. William Glasser

Each teacher has his own style. What makes one great and another not is his/her caring and hard work. so, when you recognize these great teachers and you want to learn from them, you will learn how to care and how to be a hard worker not more. At the end, you will apply them by your own style and if you tried to imitate his/her style you find yourself as a big loser not as a great teacher.

5-      I never teach my pupils, I only provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein

It is important to teach our students how to construct knowledge by themselves not feed them the knowledge. Simply, you, as teacher, are not with them 24/7. So, when they need to learn something and you are not there beside them what would they do?