Teacher Learner Quotes & Sayings

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. — John Updike

It is not the teacher's proper task to be constantly testing
and checking the understanding of the learner. That's the learner's task, and
only the learner can do it. The teacher's job is to answer questions when
learners ask them, or to try to help learners understand better when they ask
for that help. — John Holt

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Stephen's answer to Deasy who says "You were not born to be a teacher, I think. Perhaps I am wrong." (Episode 2, line 403 in the Gabler edition) — James Joyce

Shifting the focus from the teacher to the learner will take time and training, but it will also take the willingness to 'unlearn' what so many have been taught about student learning and teacher control. We can admire this dilemma for as long as we want, but the truth is, 'the train has left the station' and the learners are on it." - Jackie Johnston, Director of Alternative and Community Education, District 112, Minnesota — Barbara A. Bray

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher. — Plato

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student. — Soren Kierkegaard

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. — Benjamin Whichcote

The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning. — Nathan M. Pusey

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher. — Lowell Milken

The building blocks of mathematical thinking are requisite for more advanced conceptualization. If a student is not ready to move on, then the teacher must take time to assist that learner. — Heidi Hayes Jacobs

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. — Elbert Hubbard

...no learner can afford to be dependent on the teacher for everything that needs to be noticed, so teachers have to teach children to look for possibilities. — Peter Johnston

There are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner. — Paulo Freire

A sage is a good teacher, but an even greater learner. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught. — Paulo Freire

One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices. — Vera John-Steiner

Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it. — Ogwo David Emenike

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs. — Carol Ann Tomlinson

To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace. — Chris Raschka

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves — Henry David Thoreau

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it's what the learner learns. — Alfie Kohn

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand ... what he learns and the way he understands it. — Soren Kierkegaard

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher. — Bunker Roy

Understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher. — Mortimer J. Adler

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner. — Wendell Berry