Quotes About Teaching

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

I'll never retire as long as I live—that's like retiring from life! I'll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you're in good health, living is exciting on its own.

Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.

Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it.

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

That God is very remote indeed from the things of our experience is nowhere clearer than in Aquinas's account of divine simplicity, which is perhaps the most controversial aspect of his teaching on the divine attributes. For Aquinas, God is "simple" in the sense of being in no way composed of parts (ST I.3).

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But telling is not teaching. The expression of facts that are in one's mind is a natural impulse when one wishes others to know these facts, just as to cuddle and pat a sick child is a natural impulse. But telling a fact to a child may not cure his ignorance of it any more than patting him will cure his scarlet fever. (p. 61)

simple probability and statistics should be taught in grades kindergarten through twelve and that analyzing games of chance such as coin matching, dice, and roulette is one way we can learn enough to think through such issues.

chose young smart people just out of university because they were not set in their ways from previous jobs. Better to teach a young athlete who comes fresh to his sport than to retrain one who has learned bad form.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

The massive interest in self-esteem and self-worth exists because it is trying to help us with a real problem. The problem is that we really are not okay. There is no reason why we should feel great about ourselves. We truly are deficient. The meager props of the self-esteem teaching will eventually collapse as people realize that their problem is much deeper. The problem is, in part, our nakedness before God.

Do you know why teachers revere the wise young? Because they're so rare. There is nothing new under the Sun. To know the fear of God is the entire agenda. The gift is to be able to do this and to guide others to same. Here is the task of true religion where the world is given up in exchange for God

The Sphere would willingly have continued his lessons by indoctrinating me in the conformation of all regular Solids, Cylinders, Cones, Pyramids, Pentahedrons, Hexahedrons, Dodecahedrons, and Spheres: but I ventured to interrupt him. Not that I was wearied of knowledge. On the contrary, I thirsted for yet deeper and fuller draughts than he was offering to me.

The game taught me the game. And it didn't spare the rod while teaching." <(^^,)>

Christ passed no human being by as worthless and hopeless, but sought to apply the saving remedy to every soul who needed help. Wherever he was found, he had a lesson to present that was the right one for the time and circumstance.

A digital mentor has fewer errors, without distinctions; contrarily, a physical mentor has higher mistakes and errors, even with distinctive intuition and insight.

A digital mentor has fewer errors, without distinctions; contrarily, a physical mentor has uttermost mistakes and errors, even with distinctive intuition and insight.