Quotes About Teaching

he also recruited another of Emerson's intimates, Margaret Fuller (no relation to the headmaster), to the teaching staff. It

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Scripture also teaches that human beings are morally responsible creatures

There is no need for you to formally promote certain doctrines: your very presence becomes a teaching example to others, a liberating art that opens their imagination to the potential freedom they also can experience. (p. 79)

Silence is the Buddha's greatest expression. It's the Buddha's great teaching, what the Hindus call "You are That" in the Upanishads. "You are the ultimate reality. You are God!" the Hindus boldly declare. But the Buddha's way of affirming that fact is by being silent, because if you are that, after all, if you are what the theists think is God, you already know it yourself. (p. 15)

Teachers must, I discovered, have a gift to teach and the compulsion to use it. And faith. Anything less won't carry you through.

All this has important implications for rearing children. It suggests that we should never heavily bribe or threaten our children to do the things we want them truly to believe in.

Awakening goes beyond coaching, teaching, mentoring and sponsorship to include the level of vision, mission and spirit.

By words one of us can give another the greatest happiness or bring about utter despair; by words the teacher imparts his knowledge to the student; by words the orator sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth emotions and are universally the means by which we influence our fellow-creatures.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

Kdyby rybá? napichoval na há?ek jako návnadu n?co, co chutná jemu, asi by na to moc ryb nechytil. Proto užívá jako návnadu to, co chutná rybám. S chlapci je to stejné. Kdybyste jim kázali o tom, co sami považujete za po- vznášející, nechytili byste je.

The successful evangelist uses the Scriptures in order to disclose the divine patterns and, ultimately, the Pattern who is made flesh in Jesus.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Sir Thomas More: Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher; perhaps a great one. Richard Rich: If I was, who would know it? Sir Thomas More: You; your pupils; your friends; God. Not a bad public, that.

Interesting, I said - using a word I often use when students come out with an earnest banality - and left it at that.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening.

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey."

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.

That which Pythagoras said to his scholars of old, may be forever applied to melancholy men, A fabis abstinete, eat no beans.

The hardest thing about choosing good names is that it requires good descriptive skills and a shared cultural background. This is a teaching issue rather than a technical, business, or management issue.

I told you those two stories because they describe two very different kinds of mentoring, neither of which are the kind that the word usually implies. In the first case I learned from the authors of a very well-written manual. In the second case I learned by observing people who were actively trying to ignore me. In both cases the knowledge gained was profound and foundational.

If Hegel could not be taught to ordinary intelligent people, then I for one would not find reason to read him at all.