Robert Frost Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

• Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

• What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

  Robert Frost

  Teaching, Eye, Sight

• I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

  Robert Frost

  Teaching, Writing, Cities

  Robert Frost (1995). “Collected Poems, Prose & Plays”, Severn House Paperbacks

• Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

  Robert Frost

  Teacher, Teaching, Mean

• I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.

  Robert Frost

  Believe, Teaching, School

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.70, Harvard University Press

• It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.

  Robert Frost

  Teaching, Taken, Facts

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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