teaching quotes

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

-Jacques Barzun
  In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

Nothing is more difficult than to determine what a child takes in, and does not take in, of its environment and its teaching. This fact is brought home to me by the hymns which I learned as a child, and never forgot. They mean more to me almost than the finest poetry, and they have for me a more permanent value, somehow or other.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
Collected in Phoenix II: Uncollected, Unpublished and Other Prose Works (1968).

What matters is not what any individual thinks, but what is true. A teacher who does not equip his pupils with the rudimentary tools to discover this is substituting indoctrination for teaching.

- Richard Stanley Peters
  Ethics and Education.