Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Teaching, Self, Taught

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.284, Baen Publishing Enterprises

• When one teaches, two learn.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Education, Clever, Teaching

• It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Teaching, Leader, Following Your Own Path

• Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Time Enough for Love "Prelude II" (1973)

• From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Teaching, Math, Important

• Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Teaching, Thinking

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