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Quotes About Teaching

Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.
~ John A. Rassias
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
~ John Adams
the increasing use of technology in the classroom will transform the role of educators allowing the educational process to become ever more student centered.
~ John Bailey
I've been thinking," he said. "Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.
~ John Barnes
The house of fiction has many windows ... sometimes such a simple thing as suggesting to a student that perhaps realism instead of fantasy may be a more sympathetic genre, or humor instead of the opposite, or the novel rather than the short story--sometimes a simple suggestion like that can be the one that makes things click.
~ John Barth
An unexamined and untested belief system is not faith. It's only an inheritance you have been taught.
~ John Bullock
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
~ John Burroughs
Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not.
~ John C. Lilly
The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.
~ John C. Maxwell
For as 'Wright's Ninth Rule of Writing' states, every story teaches a moral, whether intended by the author or not.
~ John C. Wright
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.
~ John Calvin
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
~ John Calvin
Everything bad that they (the ungodly) can seize hold of in our life is twisted maliciously against Christ and His teaching. The result is that by our fault God's sacred name is exposed to insult. The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more intent we should be to avoid their slanders, so that their ill-will strengthens us in the desire to do well.
~ John Calvin
Now, in order that true religion may shine upon us, we ought to hold that it must take its beginning from heavenly doctrine and that no one can get even the slightest taste of right and sound doctrine unless he be a pupil of Scripture.
~ John Calvin
the church of God can be established in no other way than by the Word. True
~ John Calvin
God] does not bind the ancient folk to outward doctrine as if they were learning their ABC's.
~ John Calvin
where the teaching is corrupt or is despised, there is no religion approved by God.
~ John Calvin
if men are only naturally taught, instead of having any distinct, solid, or certain knowledge, they fasten only on contradictory principles, and, in consequence, worship an unknown God.
~ John Calvin
He is always careful to take account of the unity and harmony of Scripture teaching. His expositions are not therefore afflicted with the vice of expounding particular passages without respect to the teaching of Scripture elsewhere and without respect to the system of truth set forth in the Word of God.
~ John Calvin
Any man then who would profit by the Scriptures, must hold first of all and firmly that the teaching of the law and the prophets came to us not by the will of man, but as dictated by the Holy Spirit.
~ John Calvin
By the word letter Paul means preaching which is external and does not reach the heart; by Spirit he means teaching which is alive, which works mightily in the souls of men by the grace of the Spirit. Letter
~ John Calvin
In regard to the present question, while it explains what our duty is it teaches that the power of obeying it is derived from the goodness of God, and it accordingly urges us to pray that this power may be given us.
~ John Calvin
Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.
~ John Cameron
Illiteracy is a form of slavery!" he would cry. "We can't waste time blaming anyone. We need to become obsessed with teaching people to read!
~ John Corcoran