Teaching Art Quotes:

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams

source: The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Teacher, Inspirational Education

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

- Josef Albers

source: Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

topic: Inspirational, Teaching, Giving, Right Answers, Inspirational Education

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

- John Cotton Dana

source: John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

topic: Inspirational, Dare, Teach, Math Education, Inspirational Education

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

- Maria Montessori

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspirational Student, Inspiring Education

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

- Patricia Neal

source: Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Expectations, Inspiring Educational, Great Teacher

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Students And Education, Wonderful Teacher

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

- Mark Van Doren

topic: Art, Teaching, Learning, Inspirational Educational, Modern Education

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

- John Steinbeck

source: John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Sprung, Inspirational Educational

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

- Maria Montessori

source: "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Student

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

- Gail Godwin

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Education, Good Teacher, Good Students

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

- Jacques Barzun

source: 1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Teacher

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

- E. M. Forster

source: "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Running, Self Education, Good Students

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

- Anatole France

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Teacher, Math Education, Spring Awakening

You teach best what you most need to learn.

- Richard Bach

topic: Education, Wisdom, Learning, Inspirational Teacher, Teaching Art

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

source: A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

topic: Art, Teaching, Realization, Seamless, Pausing

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

- Benjamin Jowett

topic: Educational, Men, May, Learning And Growing, Great Teacher

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Teacher, Song, Art, Vary, Teacher Motivational

When one teaches, two learn.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Education, Two, Teach, Children And Education, Teaching And Education

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.175, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Wisdom, Teacher, Memories, Teacher Student, Good Teacher

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Education, Teacher, Eye, Good Teacher, Good Teaching

Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this experience, you have to really go back to the fundamentals.

- Kehinde Wiley

topic: Art, Teaching, People, Teaching Art, Art Students

Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art, athletics, and music. He was a student of peace and he embodied peace. Sri Chinmoy was a great man and his life's work significantly helped to build world harmony and will continue to do so.

- Al Gore

topic: Spiritual, Art, Teaching, Teaching Art

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

- William James

source: William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.12, Nuvision Pubns

topic: Teacher, Art, Teaching, Teaching Art

The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.

- William James

source: William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.18, Harvard University Press

topic: Teacher, Art, Teaching, Teaching Art, Worst Things

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

- William James

topic: Teacher, Art, Teaching, Teaching Art

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

- William James

source: William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.17, Nuvision Pubns

topic: Teacher, Art, Teaching, Teaching Art

Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.

- William James

source: William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.4, Courier Corporation

topic: Art, Mistake, Teaching, Gaining Confidence, Teaching Art

In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.

- William James

source: William James (1912). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”

topic: Art, Teaching, Psychology, Devouring, Teaching Art

Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

- William James

source: William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.16, Harvard University Press

topic: Teacher, Art, Teaching, Alphas, Alpha And Omega

The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.

- William James

source: William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.15, Harvard University Press

topic: Art, Mistake, Teaching, Criticise, Teaching Art

You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.

- William James

source: William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.14, Nuvision Pubns

topic: Art, Mistake, Teaching, Teaching Art

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

- William James

source: William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.14, Nuvision Pubns

topic: Art, Teaching, Psychology, Teaching Art

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

- William James

source: William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.14, Nuvision Pubns

topic: Teacher, Art, Real, Teaching Art

Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized...

- Michael Bell

topic: Art, Teaching, Vision, Personal Vision, Shared Experiences