Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.

It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inlinkng of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution.

What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would do my homework and I think I could do a decent job. I don't think a degree in education would make me a better teacher. I sometimes teach in college. I don't teach for long periods of time, but I give workshops and I think I can communicate stuff. So, it's about communicating.

You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.

He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

We learn by teaching.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

When you teach, you learn.

Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways.

You have to be a master to teach.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.

I'll teach you differences.

Instill respect for teachers.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.