Quotes About Teaching

Wagner: Ich hab es öfters rühmen hören, Ein Komödiant könnt einen Pfarrer lehren. Faust: Ja, wenn der Pfarrer ein Komödiant ist; Wie das denn wohl zuzeiten kommen mag.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

The Holy Scriptures are that divine instrument by which we are taught what to believe, concerning God, ourselves, and all things, and how to please God unto eternal life.

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.

Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

I can't very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

I'm interested in impacting people with life lessons that they can pass on. A touchdown is only remembered for one Sunday, but a lesson that can be passed on to your kids is Paramount.

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to something beyond the classroom; life.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

The life of doctrine is in application.

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.