Life Teaching Quotes:

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Mom, Life Teaching, Preschool Children

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

- Alvin Toffler

source: "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Futurist, Learning To Read

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

- John Dewey

topic: Life, Inspiring, Education, Unschooling, Inspirational Education

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Funny, Leadership, Education, Managing Change, Going Back To School

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Children, Teaching, Years, Life Teaching

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

- Mortimer Adler

source: "The Leisure Alternatives Catalog: Food for Mind & Body". Book by Joseph Allen, 1979.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Teaching, Going Back To School, Inspirational Learning

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Education, Flower, Teaching, Special Education, Inspirational Teacher

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

- Tom Bodett

topic: Life, School, Lessons, Live And Learn, Inspirational Learning

You say you're worried about kids? I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups... Children are not the problem here... We spend the first year of their lives teaching them how to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Children, Teaching, Kids, Life Teaching

If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?

- Carl E. Olson

topic: Jesus, Teaching, Giving, Life Teaching, Ordination

I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice. Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love - that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.

- Rosa Parks

source: Rosa Parks, James Haskins (1948). “My Story”, Scholastic

topic: Teaching, Thinking, People, Life Teaching, Living Together

It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.

- Jerome Bruner

source: Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.117, Harvard University Press

topic: Children, Teaching, Adults, Life Teaching