Quotes About Teaching

So in a phrase, preaching is expository exultation. In conclusion, then, the reason that preaching is so essential to the corporate worship of the church is that it is uniquely suited to feed both understanding and feeling. It is uniquely suited to waken seeing God and savoring God. God has ordained that the Word of God come in a form that teaches the mind and reaches the heart.

What you and I need is usually not a brand-new teaching. Brand-new truths are probably not truths. What we need are reminders about the greatness of the old truths. We need someone to say an old truth in a fresh way. Or sometimes, just to say it.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Write about something you know. Try to leave your readers better off than they were before.

The so-called "social gospel" lays stress upon this life, not on the next. In many quarters it is now regarded as very old-fashioned and passe' to urge people to prepare to die. Social security, better housing, relief for tenant farmers, better living conditions for the poor and the care of underprivileged children—these have occupied so much of the teaching and preaching of these modern days, that preachers have left hungry-hearted people ignorant about Heaven.

Again and again the schools which form the twentieth century's elites throughout the West refer to their Socratic heritage. The implication is that doubt is constantly raised in their search for truth. In reality the way they teach is the opposite of a Socratic dialogue. In the Athenian's case every answer raised a question. With the contemporary elites every question produces an answer. Socrates would have thrown the modern elites out of his academy.

Falsafah tidak pernah terlepas daripada sejarah. Kadang-kadang saya terfikir ada bagusnya jika saya terus menyata kebenaran tentang sesebuah soalan kepada pelajar saya lalu mengakhiri syarahan. Tetapi pendekatan membelakangi sejarah sedemikian rupa cenderung menghasil kedangkalan falsafah.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.

Preachers say: do as I say, not what I do

Mark provides us, for example, with the first mention in Christian history of the figure we call John the Baptist. Mark is the first to relate the story of Jesus' baptism and the account of his temptation in the wilderness. He is the first to suggest that the betrayal was by the hand of one of "the twelve." He is the first New Testament writer to associate miracles with the memory of Jesus. He is the first to assert that Jesus taught in parables.

Your legacy as an educator is always determined by what your students do. You change the world by empowering your students to do the same.

Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level.

Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.

Serving Leaders have to reduce their wisdom on 'how to succeed' into bite-sized packages.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

But though direct moral teaching does much, indirect does more; and the effect my father produced on my character, did not depend solely on what he said or did with that direct object, but also, and still more, on what manner of man he was.

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.

education and schooling are, as we all have experienced, mutually exclusive terms.

In theoretical, metaphorical terms, the idea I began to explore was this one: that teaching is nothing like the art of painting, where, by the addition of material to a surface, an image is synthetically produced, but more like the art of sculpture, where, by the subtraction of material, an image already locked in the stone is enabled to emerge. It is a crucial distinction.

The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you.

Under this outlook, the classroom would never be used to produce knowledge, but only to consume it; it would not encourage the confined to produce ideas, only to consume the ideas of others.

Ordinary people send their children to school to get smart, but what modern schooling teaches is dumbness.