Maya Angelou Quotes About Teaching

• It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  Maya Angelou

  Strength, Educational, Teaching

  Twitter post from Jul 13, 2016

• The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Education

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.29.

• My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

  Maya Angelou

  Teacher, Teaching, Believe

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.166, Modern Library

• Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.

  Maya Angelou

  Baby, Teaching, Giving

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