Quotes About Teaching

I know many people who are poor because they are neither good students nor good teachers.

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.

I liked the company of most of my colleagues, who were about equally divided among good men who were good teachers, awful men who were awful teachers, and the grotesques and misfits who drift into teaching and are so often the most educative influences a boy meets in school. If a boy can't have a good teacher, give him a psychological cripple or an exotic failure to cope with; don't just give him a bad, dull teacher.

Come back, Felicia. Don't leave Frenchman's Bluff. Don't leave the children." He brushed his lips against hers, and his voice lowered. "Don't leave me. You've taught me so much already, but I have so much more to learn." She smiled a little. "What have I taught you, Mr. Murphy?" "More than you could imagine, my love. But it'll take me a lifetime to find the words to tell you.

I'd learned to fish because Mel taught me, not because I longed to impale small invertebrates on barbed hooks and rip hell out of piscine oral cavities and smother fellow oxygen breathers in an alien medium

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.' Like I

tu pasado. Acéptalo como el maestro que es.

However, just like this cup, you seem to be full of your own ideas. And how can any more go in . . . until you first empty your cup?

Everyone who enters your life comes to you at precisely the time that you most need to learn the lesson they've come to teach." "I believe that.

Everyone who enters your life has a lesson to teach and a story to tell. Every person you pass during the moments that make up your days represents an opportunity to show a little more of the compassion and courtesy that define your humanity. Why not start

Todas las personas que entran en tu vida lo hacen precisamente en el momento en que más necesitas aprender la lección que han venido a enseñarte.

As Confucius said many years ago:

Be humble. Live with what the eastern sages called the beginners mind. Remember that everyone who enters your life has a story to tell and a lesson to teach if you have the wisdom to be open to it. Also remember that everyone who comes into your life does so exactly the right time to teach you the lesson you most needed to learn.

Las escuelas solo son un complemento de la enseñanza de los padres. En

Hay personas que aprenden de los errores ajenos. Éstos son los sabios. Otros piensan que las verdaderas enseñanzas vienen de la experiencia personal. Éstos soportan dolor e inquietudes innecesarias durante toda su vida.

This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden—so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.

Our indigenous herbalists say to pay attention when plants come to you; they're bringing you something you need to learn.

They wondered at the consequences of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong.

By the same token, Martin Luther's efforts to provide religious education for the German peasants and urban lower classes failed completely because the lessons were conceived by a university professor far more concerned with intricate nuances than with the ABCs of Christian belief – not with simply making people familiar with the Lord's Prayer, for example, but with revealing its subtle implications.

Understanding should be promoted in young children before it is too late.

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

I hate to say it, boss, but anything I learn I pick up from your vibes. Ain't no one else around to teach me manners and like that.

Narayan explained how they had spent the morning, and Dukhi laughed to hear it. the entire episode made Radha furious. Why must you torment the boy? There is no need to make my Om do such dirty work....How will he appreciate what he has if he does not learn what his forefathers did? Once a week he will come with me! Whether he likes it or not!

There is an age at which we teach what we know. Then comes another age at which we teach what we do not know; this is called research. Now perhaps comes the age of another experience: that of unlearning, of yielding to the unforeseeable change which forgetting imposes on the sedimentation of the knowledges, cultures, and beliefs we have traversed.