Quotes About Teaching

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their "gospel" doesn't even need it!

The clearest way to put this is to say that Jesus thinks that following him means following the Torah. Those who follow him (and his teaching of the Torah) will be called "great" in the kingdom. Anyone who denies his teachings and teaches others not to follow him (and through him the Torah) will be called "least" in the kingdom.

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

Silence between teachers' remarks is a very important part of a lecture. Silence provides time for consolidation and thought.

I want to be taught, not told. I don't mind being proven wrong or trumped provided I learn something, but I did not follow decrees well.

The best teachers use entertainment as a way to fuel teaching, not simply to make their students laugh.

10 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" 11And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

For United Methodist doctrine the loving spirit that is the goal of Christian doctrine ought to inform all of the practices related to it. It ought to be the rule that guides the thinking, speaking, discerning, listening, and discussing doctrine. Catholic spirit does not mean indifference even in matters of opinion. It does mean teaching and learning the faith in love.

I'm no one you want to learn from.

I've still got my hands full training those giggling idiots out of every bad habit they picked up from you and replacing them with the bad habits I need.

The business we are about is the ministry of the Word, and the ministry of the Word seeks to grow up believers in Jesus Christ.

When you see yourself as a discipler, you will rethink how you preach, what you preach, and why you preach.

Lay people learn hermeneutics from their pastors' preaching. Whether we like it or not, they learn how to interpret Scripture from how we handle Scripture in the pulpit. So what do we teach listeners about hermeneutics when Jesus makes a surprise appearance in a sermon from Proverbs?

Old Gífr taught us to make that death as hard as nails.

Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. (Col. 2:6–7 NIV)

And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. (Matt. 9:35–36)

Evolution of form is very much a matter of teaching very old genes new tricks!

I believe that the teaching of evolution and science is best served by promoting the scientific method and scientific knowledge and not by attacking religious views. The latter is a futile, counterproductive batte. However, I also believe, as many denominations have also concluded, that religion is better served by promoting and evolving its respective teachings and theologies, and not by attacking science, which is definitely a losing strategy

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.