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It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. -- Edward Sapir
My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. -- John Henrik Clarke
So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet? -- Cay S. Horstmann
There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself? -- Noel Tichy
We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning. -- Andy Hargreaves
A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching. -- David W. Oxtoby
I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement. -- David Warlick
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience. -- John Dewey
[America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries. -- Kesha Rogers
David Langford, illustrates the difference between teaching and learning in a little story. He says, 'You know, last Wednesday I taught my dog to whistle. I really did. I taught him to whistle. It was hard work. I really went at it very hard. But I taught him to whistle. Of course, he didn't learn, but I taught.' -- Myron Tribus
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics. -- Bertrand Russell
Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop. -- Peter Drucker
Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation. -- Chungliang Al Huang
As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases. -- John Dewey
The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war. -- Menachem Begin
It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition. -- Jean Houston
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. -- Nicholas Negroponte
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning. -- Maya Lin
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental. -- Alison Gopnik
One of my signature strengths is the love of learning, and by teaching, I have built it into the fabric of my life. I try to do some of it every day. -- Martin Seligman
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. -- John Jay Chapman
In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools. -- Gerry Schwartz
Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.' -- Adora Svitak
I grew up with Shakespeare, and there are so many wonderful teachings in those plays. The stories are all so unique and timeless. There is just so much learning in that body of work, and that is something I will always go back to. -- Juliet Rylance
All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives. -- E. F. Benson
Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her. -- Bonnie Hunt
I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.' -- Jess Walter
When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance. -- Caroll Spinney
Teaching, without learning, is just talking -- K. Patricia Cross
Teaching is listening, learning is talking -- Deborah Meier
It's not the teaching, it's the learning. -- Sly Stone
Teaching is the royal road to learning. -- Jessamyn West
Teaching is the ability to inspire learning. -- Nick Saban
Teaching is a great way to keep learning. -- Matthea Harvey
The best learning I had came from teaching. -- Corrie Ten Boom
The goal of teaching is learning, not teaching. -- Hugo Rossi
There is, in fact, no teaching without learning. -- Paulo Freire
The objective of education is learning, not teaching -- Russell L. Ackoff
Learning is as much an art as teaching -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling. -- Deborah Meier
If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow. -- Howard G. Hendricks
In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing. -- David B. Coe
The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching. -- Richard DuFour
When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching. -- Susan Orlean
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. -- Oscar Wilde
I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself. -- Hilton Als
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. -- Phil Collins
Teaching is not telling and learning is not having been told. -- Madeline Hunter
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself. -- Seamus Heaney
What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning. -- Elie Wiesel
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge. -- Aristotle
Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current. -- Jimmy Heath
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen. -- Vandana Shiva
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. -- Carlos Fuentes
It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching. -- Ivan Illich
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself. -- Paulo Coelho
Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. -- John Holt
That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value. -- Robert Kraft
Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning. -- Paulo Freire
A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning. -- Don Meyer
A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning. -- Mollie Marti
The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching. -- Seymour Papert
Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching. -- Mao Zedong
Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning. -- Marshall McLuhan
Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time. -- Joel Edgerton
We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying. -- Wendy Whelan
It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching. -- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue -- Elizabeth I
The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners. -- Albert Camus
A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught. -- Bobby Knight
I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities. -- Marva Collins
HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning. -- Idries Shah
In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill. -- Peter Drucker
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. -- Ivan Illich
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. -- Marva Collins
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Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before. -- Loris Malaguzzi
Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching. -- Michael Bennet
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. -- Ivan Illich
20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting, though still a tricky proposition, is much easier. -- Ken McCarthy

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