Quotes About Teaching

I seem to be having difficulty—my first instructor was Dr. Chandra. He taught me to sing a song, it goes like this, 'Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you.'" The

who is better off, the child with a mentor who knows and tells everything or the one whose teacher helps the child find her own answers?

Good morning, Colonel Tooke. This is Athena. I am ready for my first lesson.

When something dies is the greatest teaching.

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.

Academic joke making the rounds: Professor A: Have you read that book? Professor B: Read it? I haven't even taught it yet.

With geology—a knowledge-based account of the nature of planet Earth, which one might legitimately regard as the ur-science—now unleashed from churchly teaching, other kinds of rational thinking started to seep into and infect all the other realms of natural philosophy. Science in its most general sense took off as a legitimate field of study and challenge, and the free-thinking rationality and free will that is the

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their time comes, will manufacture professors.

growing in faith and love for Christ, revealed as He is in Scripture, will be the greatest of all preservatives against being led astray. The person who is saturated in the teaching and spirit of the Gospels will have his or her senses trained ... to distinguish good from evil (Heb. 5:14, NIV) and to know what is truly Christ-like and Christ-honoring.

Church history helps to illuminate and clarify what we believe, providing a context for evaluating our beliefs and practices, according to the teaching of the church of all the ages.

Harsh ways are taught by harshness.

I am the shape you made me. Filth teaches filth.

Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life.

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Sometimes when I read Scripture, I'm trying to learn something or teach something or change something in my life.

I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

Life is not trying to entertain us, it's trying to teach us.

When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.

I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.