Quotes About Teaching

He'd better be one who keeps his eyes from the others or she'll have him over her knee.

Miss Zarves taught the class on the nineteenth story. There was no Miss Zarves.

Even the book I'm reading to my class," said Miss Zarves. "The author makes fun of teachers!

How much hair do you have?" Joe shrugged his shoulders. "A lot," he answered. "But how much, Joe?" asked Mrs. Jewls. "Enough to cover my head," Joe answered. "Joe, you are going to have to learn how to count

I once had a teacher who told me I'd be twice as smart if I was half as smart as I thought I was. I'm still trying to figure that one out.

Yet that is considered an excellent school, and I dare say it would be if the benighted lady did not think it necessary to cram her pupils like Thanksgiving turkeys, instead of feeding them in a natural and wholesome way. It is the fault with most American schools, and the poor little heads will go on aching till we learn better.

Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season.

So you see [the act of teaching] teaches me also, and is as good as a general review of what I've learned, in a pleasanter way than going over it alone.

It is often said that there should be no death or grief in children's stories. It is not wise to dwell on the dark and sad side of these things; but they have also a bright and lovely side, and since even the youngest, dearest, and most guarded child cannot escape some knowledge of the great mystery, is it not well to teach them in simple, cheerful ways that affection sweetens sorrow, and a lovely life can make death beautiful?

I know I do—teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I'm longing to enjoy myself at home, began Meg, in the complaining tone again.

For the parents who had taught one child to meet death without fear, were trying now to teach another to accept life without despondency or distrust, and to use its beautiful opportunities with gratitude and power.

for the parents who have taught one child to meet death without fear, were trying now to teach another to accept life without despondency or distrust, and to use its beautiful opportunities with gratitude and power.

Many wise and true sermons are preached us every day by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home.

Mr Davis knew any quantity of Greek, Latin, Algebra, and ologies of all sorts, so he was called a fine teacher; and manners, morals, feelings, and examples were not considered of any particular importance.

I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example.

For purpose and principle are the best teachers we can have, and the want of them makes half the women of America what they are, restless, aimless, frivolous, and sick.

Yes, and when I have my flock, I'll just point to you, and say 'There's your model, my lads'.

I never undertake to instruct the man who asks me questions.

If it taught anything, it taught us thus early that prayer is a mere empty form of words.

La buena noticia es que, si sobrevives, el sufrimiento enseña. La mala noticia es que el verdadero sufrimiento casi siempre mata.

A man cannot be blamed for ignorance if he has never been taught.

Great, Yoda wrote the directions.

Pro ?lovÄ›ka je dokonce velmi Å¡patné, nem?že-li pÃ…â"¢istupovat k záhadÄ› bytí nejprve citem. Je proto nutné, aby vychovatel mÄ›l pro vÅ¡echny pÃ…â"¢írodní zákony a tajemství svÄ›ta k dispozici podobenství.

We want to be aware that physical existence is a continuance of the spiritual, and that what we have to do in education is a continuation of what higher beings have done without our assistance. Our form of educating can have the correct attitude only when we are aware that our work with young people is a continuation of what higher beings have done before birth.