Quotes About Teaching

The guru is like a gardener, and the disciples like flowers.

collaborative teams think of common formative assessments as academic scrimmages or dress rehearsals.

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people's satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

Some teachers think they are preparing their students for life by teaching them that the choices they have are limited. Thus the real lesson they teach is compromise: Learn to live with what you don't really like because you will have plenty of that.

Hector Berlioz's witty comment, "Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of its students.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

The people were taught that the record was inspired, and therefore true. They were not taught that it was true, and therefore inspired.

Is it possible that St. Paul was inspired of God, when he said: "Let the women learn in silence, with all subjection."—"Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man?

Life had taught him that a great and powerful love could be felt for the most apparently unworthy people, a circumstance that ought, after all, to give everybody consolation.

incredible. Life had taught him that a great and powerful love could be felt for the most apparently unworthy people, a circumstance that ought, after all, to give everybody consolation.

Wolf is the Grand Teacher. Wolf is the sage, who after many winters upon the sacred path and seeking the ways of wisdom, returns to share new knowledge with the tribe. Wolf is both the radical and the traditional in the same breath. When the Wolf walks by you - you will remember.

inner meaning of Holy Scripture to all who heard him. Sanctified by God

thereby, to lay bare the true inner meaning of Holy Scripture to all who heard him. Sanctified by God

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

I must not take this or that doctrine by itself; but I must make up my mind whether or no it is the one only Catholic Church, and then I shall believe all that she teaches, because she teaches it, and not because I understand it.

It came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray.

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. – Psalm 90:12

Proverbs 7:1, 3: "Treasure my commands. . . . Write them on the tablet of your heart.

From childhood you have know the Holy Scriptures. – 2 Timothy 3:15

The law and the prophets are not doctrinal, philosophical and scientific codes, placed in the hands of priests for the government of the people; they are allegories, given to children that the older may teach the younger the simple love-stories the Father has written to excite and stimulate the love of His beloved ones.

How much of the total educational effort is devoted to teaching people who do not have a motivation, other than responding to compulsion, to learn what we are trying to teach them? Is there any way out of this dilemma (if you concede that it is a dilemma) other than Ivan Illich's revolutionary approach?

magazine, People, Newsday, and the Washington Post. A long-standing member of the Writers Guild of America, he has taught and lectured at colleges and universities nationwide, including the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also served as visiting lecturer in literature at Claremont McKenna College for

What do you teach?" "Art history." From Taylor's expression, this made little sense.

The art of teaching consists in large part of interesting people in things that ought to interest them, but do not