Quotes About Teaching

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

I wrote my sonic meditations and started using them with students. I took a bunch of UCSD students out to Joshua Tree and we did the sonic meditations on the boulders.

A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

A new yogi doesn't handstand on their first try, and a new teacher doesn't start out as a headliner. Be patient, and trust it's all going to add up and unfold in due time.

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.

Those who trust us educate us.

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I always trust my parents. They have great values.

David Eckman is a man you can trust... His teaching resonates with God's wisdom and compassion

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

Everything that is true is God's word, whoever may have said it.

A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words.

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.