Quotes About Teaching

Willing emancipates: for willing is creating: so do I teach. And only for creating shall you learn!

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.

Your educators can only be your liberators.

The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.

Man vergibt seinem Lehrer schlecht, wenn man immer nur der Schüler bleibt. (One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.)

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

It is a trick of Christianity to teach the utter worthlessness, sinfulness, and despicableness of man in general so loudly that disdain for one's fellow men becomes impossible.

Nothing avails: every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for mastership.   [408]

To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write. (VII

And when a person goeth through fire for his teaching -- what doth that prove! It is more, verily, when out of one's own burning cometh one's own teaching!

I want to teach them what is understood by so few today, least of all by those preachers of pity: to share not suffering but joy.

The morality that would un-self man is the morality of decline par excellence—the fact, I am declining, transposed into the imperative, all of you ought to decline—and not only into the imperative... This only morality that has been taught so far, that of un-selfing, reveals a will to the end; fundamentally, it negates life.

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but Himself. It was His Person around which His teaching centered; not His teaching around which He would be remembered. 'Greater love than this no man hath' - that was the secret of His magnetism.

Our Blessed Lord left the world without leaving any written message. His doctrine was Himself. Ideal and History were identified in Him. The truth that all other ethical teachers proclaimed, and the light that they gave to the world, was not IN them, but OUTSIDE them. Our Divine Lord, however, identified Divine Wisdom with Himself. It was the first time in history that it was ever done, and it has never been done since.

By teaching the young, she remained young. Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades in Elizabeth Arden's.

It meant nothing to teach men to be good unless He also gave them the power to be good

The Logos or Word of God taking a child on His lap will forever remain the mission of education- to share it as wealth must be shared.

Mind you, after your silly debutantes have finished their proper posture and walking lessons, tell them it never killed any young lady to remove the book from off the top of her head and open it for a change. Just like I taught you.

Man kann einen Menschen nichts lehren. Man kann ihm nur helfen, es in sich selbst zu finden!

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

I'm not a mom that's going to tell my kids everybody wins.