Quotes About Teaching

Jesus said,] "To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given, and they will have an abundance of knowledge." MATTHEW 13:12 Y

Many children go to school ill-prepared to learn because they are not emotionally ready to learn. Children need to reach appropriate emotional levels of maturity before they are able to learn effectively at their age level. Simply sending a child to a better school or changing teachers is not the answer. We must make sure our children are emotionally ready to learn. (See

These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children. —Titus 2:4

Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children." —Matthew 19:14

If our children and others don't learn the love of the Lord from us, where will they learn it? — Mimi Greenwood Knight —

But there's something really nice about spending time with a little kid. You learn so much.

The biggest advances are not made by being a great teacher; they are made by being a great student.

On all levels, from national to local, the need to move toward steady state economy — equilibrium, dynamic balance, inner growth stressed — must be taught.

But shall I have the strength to write this book? For there is a great distance between the words we speak uninhibitedly to a friendly audience and the discipline needed to write a book. When we are lecturing, we become animated by the joy of teaching and, at times, our words think for us. But to write a book requires really serious reflection.

When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so.

You believe me wise because I taught you once, but I have not been north, as you have. You have seen (what) I have never seen...You flatter me by asking my opinion.

All those who teach are hated.

I myself teach no one, knowing I would make my students stronger to destroy me. I advise you to follow the same course.

But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.

High in moral virtue was his speech, and gladly would he learn and gladly teach.

And Christ's law and His Apostles twelve he taught, but first he followed it himself.

that first he wrought and afterward he taught. From the Gospel he took these words, and this metaphor he added likewise thereunto, that if gold rust, what shall iron do? For if a Priest, upon whom we trust, be foul, no wonder a layman may yield to lust.

And Seneca says, 'Whosoever would have wisdom shall disdain no man, but he shall gladly teach what he knows, without presumption or pride, and of such things as he does not know, he shall not be ashamed to learn them, and shall inquire of lesser folk than himself.

Todo lo que se escribe, se escribe para nuestra enseñanza.»

This noble example to his sheep he [the Parson] gave | that first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

Lo, what said King Solomon, who can teach us so well? 'Do not befriend an angry man, and walk not along the way with a madman, lest you repent.' I will no further say.

A bettre preest, I trowe that nowher noon is. He wayted after no pompe and reverence,   525 Ne maked him a spyced conscience, But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taughte, and first he folwed it him-selve.

I may not telle you al at ones:

Die Pädagogik ist die Kunst, die Menschen sittlich zu machen.