Thomas Huxley Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Teaching, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.211, University of Georgia Press

• Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Teaching, Law

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

• I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Teaching, Care

• I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1882). “Science and Culture: And Other Essays”

• People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

  Thomas Huxley

  Teaching, People, Intellectual

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

• The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Teaching, Rome

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

• The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Work, Teaching

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.66

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