21 Movie Quotes about Teaching (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 6, 2026

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?

Quote from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

2 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)

3 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, Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, Augie Doggie; Yogi Bear in Yogi's First Christmas (1980)

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

Quote from Tarzan (1999)

5 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

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

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet

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

Quote from The Jungle Book (1967)

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

Quote from Dimension X

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)