Quotes About Teaching

The truth is lived, not taught.

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.

The classroom's the last room to get the truth.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

Make your own learning materials, such as counting beads, fraction circles, tangram shapes, geoboards, and other hands-on math manipulatives.

We women have been taught since birth that virtue is our greatest asset. I have nothing against virtues—I'd like to think that there are many virtues I practice assiduously. But power does not yield to virtue. Power yields only to power.

people teaches children how to be in a relationship, beginning with the ability to have a conversation.

I said that we use digital "passbacks" to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you. Of

I said that we use digital "passbacks" to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you.

if you never teach your children how to be alone then they will only know how to be lonely for the rest of their lives.

Don't leave music in the lone territory of the music teacher; make it a part of your instruction. In the words of Bob Marley, "Music gonna teach dem a lesson.

I cannot live without children.

Our aim needs to be the nurturing of children. The moment we rigidly convince ourselves, "Education is what we're after," we warp a child's development. -1-  First foster the heart, then help the child acquire ability. This is indeed nature's proper way.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

One cannot be a good teacher unless he is a good student.

Everything changes. There is nothing to stick to. That is the Buddha's most important teaching.

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere... We should forget all about some particular teaching; we should not ask which is good or bad. There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment, in every existence. That is the true teaching.

When people are very young they see animals as equals, even as kin. That humans are different, unique and superior to all other species - this they have to be taught.

Freedom means having the right to freely educate your children, and freely means no obligation to send them in a public school, where teachers want to inculcate principles different from the principles that their parents want to inculcate them in a familiar context.

Why should I waste my time going to college and teaching those goddam professors what I know?

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.