Quotes About Teaching

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

Beloved-of-the-Gods speaks thus: Father and mother should be respected and so should elders, kindness to living beings should be made strong and the truth should be spoken. In these ways, the Dhamma should be promoted. Likewise, a teacher should be honored by his pupil and proper manners should be shown towards relations. This is an ancient rule that conduces to long life. Thus should one act.

These key messages are found in the following references: Matthew 4:19; 8:18–22; 10: 24–25; 16:24–26; 20:25–28; Mark 1:17; 8:34–38; Luke 5:27–28; 6:40; 9:23–25, 57–62; 14:25–33; John 1:43; 8:31–32; 12:26; 13:34–35; 15:8.

I believe that there are five general church functions. They are teaching, fellowship, worship, evangelism, and service. All are found in Acts 2:42–47 and are prescribed in other parts of the New Testament. All five of them must be somewhat balanced and are necessary in a church's ministry if its people are to become spiritually mature.

The mission of the church, according to Matthew 28:19–20, is to make disciples, and that includes evangelism as well as other functions.

You may believe you have the gift of teaching, but until you attempt to teach, you really won't know for sure. Therefore

Enseñe a sus hijos a hacer del escenario de su mente un teatro de alegría, y no un escenario de terror.

Intelectualii care nu-si incanta elevii nu-i influenteaza, nu formeaza oameni care gandesc, ci repetitori de idei.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

The only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes: not by obscuring his vision and intention by ideas of 'right' and 'wrong'.73

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

Adults never explained anything. They saw children as akin to small animals, creatures who had to be tugged and beaten into adulthood before they were worthy of information and discussion.

This move is called Qworegoys, and the women of my grandmother's family taught it to their daughters just as they taught them to make thorn-bush fences to protect the hut from hyenas.

In another sutta, he speaks about the prerequisites for the practice of meditation. The first is to know our own dukkha, to recognize where it comes from, and how it operates within our own lives. The second is to gain confidence in the teaching, to realize that we can actually take this path. The third is to experience joy at the opportunity we have been given. Only when all three are present will meditation bear fruit.

The teaching of the Buddha is called the Dhamma. He did not teach Buddhism, any more than Jesus taught Christianity.

The Buddha's teaching of the Dharma was called "Good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end

Why did colleges make their students take examinations, and why did they give grade? What did a grade really mean? When a student "studied" did he do anything more than read and think-- or was there something special which no one in Walden Two would know about? Why did the professors lecture to the students? Were the students never expected to do anything except answer questions? Was it true that students were made to read books they were not interested in?

the Guru, depth in character; piety in behaviour,

Pain is your guru.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

I do not wish very abstract, very philosophical, very hard matters to be stated in Parliament. The teaching there given must be popular, and to be popular it must be concrete, embodied, short. The problem is to know the highest truth which the people will bear, and to inculcate and preach that.