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| Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. | | P. J. O'Rourke | |
| More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Never teach your child to be cunning for you may be certain that you will be one of the first victims of his shrewdness | | Josh Billings | |
| No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value. | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality. | | Albert Einstein | |
| School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life | | Aristotle | |
| Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. | | Richard Bach | |
| Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach. | | Peter F. Drucker | |
| Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. | | Albert Einstein | |
| The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. | | Alfred Adler | |
| The object of teaching a child is to enable them to get along without their teacher. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. | | Aristotle | |
| The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen | | Bertrand Russell | |
| The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science? | | Thomas Hobbes | |
| The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. | | Kahlil Gibran | |
| The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority. | | Bertrand Russell | |
| The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy | | Anatole France | |
| They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master | | Samuel Johnson | |
