Quotes About Teaching

I maintain that a student's memory is largely the teacher's responsibility.

El que habla, siembra. El que escucha, recoge.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

Whereas stories are fit for every place, reach to all persons, serve for all times, teach the living, revive the dead, so far excelling all other books, as it is better to see learning in Noblemen's lives, than to read it in Philosophers' writings.

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs kindling.

Good," said Dr. Rust. "Take Elizabeth up to stack 9 and show her the ropes." "But the ropes are on stack 2." "I meant metaphorically.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

Unlimited trust should only be placed in the real Word of the Revelation that we encounter in the faith transmitted by the Church.

Modernism is an error which is still making its appearance under various new guises, wholly inconsistent with any genuine religious expression. It is surely an attempt on the part of secular philosophies and secular trends to vitiate the true teaching and discipline of the Church of Christ.

Kalau di antara lima puluh orang cuma tiga orang yang ingin jadi guru, siapakah yang akan mengajar anak-anakmu nanti?.... ....Kalau engkau tidak yakin betul, lepaskan cita-citamu untuk jadi guru itu.... ....seorang guru adalah kurban -- kurban untuk selama-lamanya. Dan kewajibannya terlampau berat -- membuka sumber kebajikan yang tersembunyi dalam tubuh anak-anak bangsa.

Para dewapun tak jarang belajar dari manusia, bahkan dibebaskan oleh manusia.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important. If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit.

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test? (to a driving instructor in Scotland)

Sometimes he lashed out just to drive home a point. If he thought it would teach us a lesson, he'd blow some minor grievance out of all proportion, and even as he was yelling he might wink at someone nearby. Then, ten minutes later, he'd be fine, leaving us bewildered and emotionally depleted. There were also times he would leave us emotionally uplifted. He was truly a master at manipulating people.

Don't be sad or dolorous because it's over and gone ! Be proud and valiant, it taught us so much and still do.

The highest result of pedagogy are mercifulness and tolerance.

Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.

We learn by teaching.

The mistakes of others are good teachers.

Teach him what has been said in the past; then he will set a good example to the children of the magistrates, and judgment and all exactitude shall enter into him. Speak to him, for there is none born wise.