Quotes About Teaching

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

We need theology in addition to Scripture because God has authorized teaching in the church, and because we need that teaching to mature in the faith.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

The practice of education is the highest form of intellectual philanthropy.

Parenting means teaching children to get their own Weet-Bix.

Twelve is the number which fits around one in three dimensions in the same way that six fits around one in two dimensions. The New Testament is a story of a teacher surrounded by twelve disciples.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

It turned out that they already had enough ESL teachers and what they needed was people to teach high school equivalency math. I wasn't particularly interested in high school math acquisition, but nobody ever said we were put on this earth for our own entertainment.

ON WHITES AS "DEVILS" "It's what He revealed, and what He revealed is what I am teaching and believe in, and this term "devil," or name "devil," is applied to wicked people, people who are by nature wicked. "They were made white, or different color, because they had been grafted out of the darker people, and, therefore, they have that color." ON FRUIT OF ISLAM "The Fruit of Islam means the first converts

The main meat that our people like to eat is what they have been taught not to eat -- the cheap and filthily-raised hog. This is a divinely-prohibited flesh. This truth has been before our eyes ever since we have had permission from the white man to read the Bible. Nothing good is said about it in the Bible in Leviticus.

Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, [.....] just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better.

the way Adrienne's mother had taught her eighty-two years earlier.

I said I was looking for the temple of the saints, in order to find myself. He told me I didn't need the temple, he would show me all I needed to know. Here is what it takes, he said, and he set his burden on the ground and stood straight. "But what do I do when I go home? I asked. Simple, he said. When you go home you do this—and he put the burden back on his shoulder.

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

El hombre debe aprender que el sentido de la vida consiste en dar ejemplo.

I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

This, she thought, was the sadness of teachers. Each semester is a contained little life - a relationship that begins, peaks, but always ends. They cycle in, cycle out, but you stay in one place. The teacher grows older, but the students never age. They are perpetually eighteen, twenty-one, lives always just on the cusp of beginning. You watch them walk off into the world, knowing you helped them become what they're becoming. You suffer the same ending again and again.

Women know The way to rear up children (to be just) They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words.

Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy, is key to a nonconfrontational relationship. Because we're basically primates, we had to wait for a bunch of aliens to come teach us.