<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Teaching - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66611]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66610]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66607]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58764]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother would say it is literally ghost writerswho come to me(Tan is the author of what became The Joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58756]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother would say it is literally ghost writerswho come to me(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58757]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge exists to be imparted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge exists to be imparted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. [Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. [Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. [Lat., Fingit equum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. [Lat., Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister  Ire viam qua monstret eques.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58751]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58752]]></link><description><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.   - John Lyly (Lylie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.   - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:  Full well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:  Full well the busy whisper, circling round,   Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule,   His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.    Supreme he sits; before the awful frown     That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down;      Not more submissive Israel heard and saw       At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod:  I have taught them the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod:  I have taught them the goodness of knowledge,   They have taught me the goodness of God;    My heart is the dungeon of darkness,     When I shut them for breaking a rule;      My frown is sufficient correction;       My love is the law of the school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58741]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58743]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58745]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58733]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both the teacher and the taught are young,   As was the case, at least, where I have been;    They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong     They smile still more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58735]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach old dogs new tricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58736]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sounding jargon of the schools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sounding jargon of the schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58730]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools;  If honest nature made you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58731]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools;  If honest nature made you fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,  I pray ye flog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58732]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,  I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,   It mends their morals, never mind the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes questions are more important than answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10852</guid></item></channel></rss>