John Katzman Quotes

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

Give instruction unto those who cannot procure it for themselves.

The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.

It's the best gift any teacher could possibly get, to go back to where you came from and offer knowledge and camaraderie.

Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Until all are taught.

Giving information that will help everybody live better. That's a teacher's dream - to accumulate information and disperse it in a form that allows people to choose the way they're going to use it. That's what I think I do best.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

Pretty much I want to be Steve Wozniak, who I decided I was at a young age and not change. I want to go back to school and get my college degree like I would have without Apple. I want to teach young kids like I would have without Apple. And part of it is I'm accessible. I'm open. And so many people e-mail me and get me. And as much as I can I try to answer people, listen to them, be polite and say yes.

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.

To educate girls is to reduce poverty.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

Fun for me is to take what I learn and teach others in a way that is accessible and applicable in their own lives.

If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge.

Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.

What I've learned over the last 6 or 7 years, I would love to teach people. I still have a lot to share with people and especially within the US.

Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS move inward - it is an honor to be with others in the spirit of writing and encouragement.

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

You teach best that which you need most to learn.