The success of learning a new language is up to the student. However, an excellent teacher can help. Before signing up to any class, it helps a great deal for you to know your own best learning style – are you a visual learner, an audio learner? Do interactive projects strengthen your experience, or are you better off as an independent learner? Here are thoughts about learning and teaching.

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
― William Arthur Ward

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
― Aristotle

“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
― Phil Collins

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
― Galileo Galilei

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
― Albert Einstein

“I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.”
― George Bernard Shaw