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Quotes About Teaching

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
~ Phillip E. Johnson
Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom
~ Kenneth R. Miller
Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.
~ John Dewey
And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.
~ William Shakespeare
Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.
~ William James
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
~ Roger Ascham
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
~ William L.K., The Voice
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
~ Leo Buscaglia
In a nation where the disbelievers sought Heaven from the idols, the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad] taught them that Heaven can be found through a simple smile.
~ Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile.
~ Whitney Houston
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.
~ Moliere
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.
~ Ivan Illich
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
~ A. Bartlett Giamatti
Sort of like what Joruus C'baoth did for Thrawn. I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now. Luke & Jaina
~ Aaron Allston
God does not reveal Himself; he only reveals His way. Judaism does not speak of God's self-revelation, but of the revelation of His teaching for man. The Bible reflects God's revelation of His relation to history, rather than of a revelation of His very Self. Even His will or His wisdom is not completely expressed through the prophets. Prophecy is superior to human wisdom, and God's love is superior to prophecy. This spiritual hierarchy is explicitly stated by the Rabbis.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Torah is primarily divine ways rather than divine laws.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Teach the children so it won't be necessary to teach the adults.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges, let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs, let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by and election, neither can they take by war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war.
~ Abraham Lincoln