17 Movie Quotes about Teaching (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 14, 2025

Memorable quotes about teaching, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 What's wrong with you teaching him?

Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

2 We're supposed to ski that way, not that way. -Whoops! Ha, ha. Sorry. I forgot that I'm, you know, teaching beginners. So we'll start the easy way: downhill.

Daws Butler as Yogi Bear in Yogi's First Christmas (1980)

3 I don't believe in system, nor in method. Now, without system, without method, what's to teach?

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet

4 I cannot teach you. Only help you to explore yourself. Nothing more.

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet

5 In learning you will teach and in teaching you will learn.

Tony Goldwyn as Tarzan in Tarzan (1999)

6 Tell me, tell me, after you knock your pupil senseless, how do you expect him to remember the lesson?

Phil Harris as Baloo in The Jungle Book (1967)

7 You don't have a way with children. You must gain their confidence, make them like you. -Yeah? How do you do that? -You force them to like you, idiot!

Geraldine Page as Madame Medusa; Geraldine Page in The Rescuers (1977)

8 I never taught you anything evil, did I, darling? Well, did I? -Yes. Yes, you did. Only you taught me to like it.

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9 He'd been teaching the same rubbish for 30 years and I don't suppose he'd read a new book for 20 of those.

Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein in The Curse of Frankenstein

10 I am a teacher, and as a teacher I know that when I have tried to teach the same lesson for a hundred times, and still the pupil does not understand, then I am forced to the conclusion that perhaps there's something wrong, either with the lesson, or with

James Mason as Timonides in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

17 Movie Quotes about Teaching (+ Sound Clips)

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