Seneca the Younger Quotes About Teaching

• My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

• A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teaching, Learning, Lessons

• ...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?

  Seneca the Younger

  Distance, Teaching, Mean

• Teach the art of living well.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Teaching, Live Well

• While we teach, we learn.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teaching, Learning, Teach

• How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

  Seneca the Younger

  Love, Teaching, Pupils

• My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teaching, Writing, Happy Life

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