Quotes About Teaching

A few white children were friendly, but others were hostile or simply distant. Teachers unthinkingly added to both problems by physically separating black students in the classroom either for special instruction or in response to the black students' requests.

The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.

The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

One can argue, why not simply give the solution; why go through the trouble of creating a puzzle? Ancient Hindus believed, wisdom must never be given. It has to be taken. And

Our psychological birth takes place when we accept a guru who reveals to us the secrets of the Vedas.

Ancient Hindus believed, wisdom must never be given. It has to be taken.

Teachers are as clueless as students.

Teachers can teach only when students want to learn. No one can help a student who does not want to learn just

Parrots can remember and repeat words and speak like human beings. But they do not understand what they are saying. As far as they are concerned, these are only sounds that humans have taught them to say.

knowledge must outlive death, so that the next generation is more enlightened.

unlike wealth, knowledge does not outlive death, hence has to be passed on to the living so that it is not lost forever.

Every religion has a positive side that teaches love and inclusion, and a horrible side that celebrates hatred and exclusion.

Overhearing The Gita I

Indian sages avoided the written word as they realized ideas were never definitive; they were transformed depending on the intellectual and emotional abilities of the giver as well as the receiver.

Fear is taught by grown up men and beasts to their young. Once we learn to be afraid, we rarely shake off the habit, and I believe our fear frightens other beasts causing them to attack us.

Being a teacher taught me how to be organized, to have a game plan in English, History, Math. The same discipline carried over into coaching. If you are an efficient and effective coach, you start off every day with a plan. You don't just walk in there and roll out the ball. You've organized what you are going to do. You break down your offenses, your defenses, your individual skills.

Knight inspires me in a similar way. When he was coaching, Knight was a brilliant teacher, a stern disciplinarian, and a purist who thought the game should be played the right way. The practice floor was his classroom; his players were his students. And he wouldn't put up with any distractions.

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice; they preach to us in every situation the one Jesus Christ.

But this distinction between person and office is wholly alien to the teaching of Jesus. He says nothing about that. He addresses his disciples as men who have left all to follow him, and the precept of non-violence applies equally to private life and official duty. He is the Lord of all life, and demands undivided allegiance.

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

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