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Quotes About Teaching

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
~ Simon Newcomb
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
~ Simon van der Meer
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
~ Sir George Savile
Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.
~ Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
~ Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Don't believe false teaching that says you won't suffer if you really love Jesus. Jesus will end all suffering eventually, but on earth he suffered more than anyone.
~ Mark Driscoll
One of the greatest blessings we can offer to the world is the power of a Christ-centered home where the gospel is taught, covenants are kept, and love abounds.
~ Richard G. Scott
If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.
~ Jonathan Kozol
As I often tell my students, the person you'll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
~ Adyashanti
I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected.
~ Harlan Ellison
I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
~ Anne Sexton
In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.
~ Cleveland Amory
I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.
~ Jim Harrison
Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.
~ Kevin Heath
Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.
~ Rajneesh
I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
~ Pat Summitt
People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.
~ Deepak Chopra
I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.
~ Martina McBride
The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.
~ Robert Grudin
How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.
~ Seneca the Younger