Quotes About Teaching

The most important thing parents can do, although it's not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.

I care about people, and I've learned in life that the only thing we are here for is to learn and teach.

I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing.

I try to have the right thing happen at the end of the case, try to have the case have a moral compass to it, try to do a little teaching while I'm at it because that's the, you know, that's the preacher in me.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

When I finished my degree I became a physics and maths teacher. And worked in the international school in Brussels, because like many kids, after University I went home going 'ahhh I don't know what to do'. I happened to fall upon a job there because they were desperate for a physics teacher which is a common theme among many schools.

I taught for a while after college, writing at night and on weekends and vacations. But I might be done writing.

With my ol' man, I got no respect. He told me to start at the bottom. He was teaching me how to swim.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

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

If he was to have able pupils and helpful associates as time went on, they would have to find their way to the attitude evoked by Henri Tracol in his response to Luc Dietrich: open to Gurdjieff but psychologically free and self-possessed.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence--a duty and a duty alone--and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through.

I began to discover that my healing theology of twenty years was not really based on Scripture, but on my erratic healing experiences and what others had taught from their erratic experiences. Because my experiences had matched theirs, I accepted what I heard as being the truth, without serious examination and comparison with Scripture.

Sickness is not listed among the blessings of God anywhere in Scripture. Convoluted reasoning, justified by experiences of failing to heal or be healed is used to teach that sickness and injuries are blessings.

No dark sarcasm, in the classroom.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

St. Paul did not baptize uninstructed converts apart from a system of mutual responsibility which ensured their instruction.

It's like the difference between a kid who goes to school and learns and a kid who goes to school and learns and comes home to parents who are reading to her and talking to her about the world, showing her things, teaching by their actions.

how often', he said,'does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them.

To know Christ entails accepting his will as norm. When we feel this we draw back, startled for it means the cross. The it is better to say honestly: "I can't yet," than to mouth pious phrases. Slow there with the large words "self-suffender," and "sacrifice." It is better to admit our weakness and ask him to teach us strength.

I just give the class what I understand of what it wants, and keep an eye on it to see what it wants next.

Education isn't about teaching people what to think, which is how we have spent a lot of church time, but to help them learn how to think and respond appropriately in real time in continuity with the script-ure.