Quotes About Teaching

The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can't learn because they're too busy telling everyone what they know.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

If I can look at a 6-year-old and learn from him, that's life. That's God for me, that's inspiring.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.

Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

It is my job in life, apparently, to teach gawking, laughing girls lessons about kindness.

Nabir nodded. "What's first?" "Footwork." "Footwork! But I learned footwork nearly two years ago!" "Didn't learn much, did you?" Then, more kindly, "Or maybe you've just forgotten." It did exactly as I expected. It shut the boy up.

We all change," I said offhandedly. "We get older, a little wiser … we learn not to judge people and things by homelands, language, gender." "Do we?" Abbu grinned. "So we do. Yes, Sandtiger, the woman is much better than I expected. But there is still much I can teach her." "Wait till she warms up." I showed him my teeth. "Better yet, wait until she sings." Abbu wasn't listening.

Somewhere outside, a goldfinch was singing. Or maybe it was a song sparrow. My dad tried to teach me different kinds of bird songs, but I couldn't quite remember.

You know Kitty still loves you best," I say, which makes him smile. "I mean, I did teach her how to hock a loogie," Josh says. "You don't forget the person who teaches you something like that." He takes a long sip of his milkshake. "Hey, they're doing a Lord of the Rings marathon at the Bess this weekend. Wanna go?" "That's like…nine hours!" "Yeah, nine hours of awesome.

I met an Australian who said he loved to travel alone. He talked about his job as we drank by the sea. When a student gets it, when it first breaks across his face, it's so fucking beautiful, he told me. I nodded, moved, though I'd never taught anyone a single thing. What do you teach, I asked him. Rollerblading, he explained.

The whole truth is not taught in a single passage: we must always bear in mind the exact point of an illustration.