Quotes About Teaching

namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education. If these home

offer an environment that is simply not conducive to learning.

I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.

Education is an admirable thing," wrote Oscar Wilde, "but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at.

It's as if we think of ideas as things, knowing as having, communicating as sending, and language as the package. 52 This is sometimes called the conduit metaphor, and it can be seen in dozens of expressions for thinking, saying, and teaching.

I also get a perverse pleasure from correcting students who refer to an important piece of data or write that this data is important. (Data is the plural of datum, I tell them, so one ought to say, The datum is important; The data are important.) Yet

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

The reason I love teaching, it's like being a miner. I find all these undiscovered jewels and, with the right motivation, they're amazed at what they can do. I have to show them their capability.

I think our animals are angels, earth-angels, pointing out for us the steadfast path of love, loyalty, optimism, faith, joy, hope. They teach us everything important about life.

The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish.

The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

People learn from people they love.

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Take your time, teach what you love, be unabashedly you, and try not to compare yourself to someone who's been teaching longer than you.