Simone Weil Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

  Simone Weil

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.14, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

  Simone Weil

  Running, Real, Teaching

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.34, Routledge

• The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.

  Simone Weil

  Teaching, Should Have, Training

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.120, Psychology Press

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