Quotes About Teaching

As [religious teachers] exclude reason and justice from their imaginary notions of religion, they also exclude it from the providence and moral government of God.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

Jesus wasn't so much handing out information as reshaping our imaginations.

the reality that was inside of Jesus got outside of him so the disciples could see it.

For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.

Our Lord gave us the picture of the child as a model for Christian faith (Mk 10:14-16) not because of the child's helplessness but because of the child's willingness to be led, to be taught, to be blessed. God does not reduce us to a set of Pavlovian reflexes so that we mindlessly worship and pray and obey on signal; he establishes us with a dignity in which we are free to receive his word, his gifts, his grace.

I am GOD, your God, who teaches you how to live right and well. I show you what to do, where to go.

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

GoD-the first step in learning is bowing down to GoD; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Teaching resurrects dead words so they live again.

Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.

Whence it is evident that the perfect religion committed to us by the teaching of Christ is not new and strange, but, if the truth must be spoken, it is the first and the true religion. This may suffice for this subject.

When we learn something new and try to teach it to someone else, our success in both receiving and transmitting the information depends on what it is about.

The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.

The trouble with child training is that parents teach their children not how to behave, but how not to behave.

We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways.

I always considered the role of teaching to be very noble and relevant.

I know that what I see in every religious person is not something I want to teach my kids.

Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening.

Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.

I remember when I was in school I had this teacher give me this E.L. Doctorow quote: They asked him how much historical research he does for his books and he said, 'As little as possible.' So I try and adhere to that.

Daddy - I remember when he first let me drive the cultivator for him, you know... He eased you into the hard work that you had to do later.