Quotes About Teaching

Psalms teaches us how to relate to God, and Proverbs teaches us how to relate to others.

The Bible is our authority in everything it touches. This means the Bible is our guide to show us how to live . . . it is our instructor.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

Love Egoist: Let me tell you this. I've done things to be appreciated but nothing to be insulted for. After all, I'm trying my hardest not to disappoint my students.

I never wanted to teach in my life.... I don't believe in teaching poetry at all, but that's what they want one to do. You see so many poems every week, you just lose all sense of judgment.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

A teacher's focus is, and should be, on teaching and helping students, rather than on developing evidence against a particular troublemaker.

In ancient days, tradition says, When knowledge was much stinted— When few could teach and fewer preach, And books were not yet printed— What wise men thought, by prudence taught, They pithily expounded; And proverbs sage, from age to age, In every mouth abounded. O Blessings on the men of yore, Whom wisdom thus augmented, And left a store of easy lore For human use invented.

But Yates was desperate enough to put aside his anxiety and give teaching a try. He could think of no more demoralizing prospect, after all, than an indefinite future of PR work—insipid, time-consuming, exhausting, and damaging to one's talent, not to mention sanity.

That's what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.

I still have trouble imagining the coach of a group of eight- or nine-year-old players actually wasting time teaching systems. The greatest system any coach can pass along is allowing kids to create and refine skills. Systems need to come into play only much later, if ever.

Some people after taking my lessons they go back yard and sort their issues, but instead of thanking me they rather start a war against me -Bobi Wine

I've got to bring out the big ammunition on sex education. The bra and girdle section of Sears just isn't doing it.

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

Education is not a thing apart from life—not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.

In all my teaching I have watched carefully the influence of the tooth-brush, and I am convinced that there are few single agencies of civilization that are more far-reaching.

Education is not a thing apart from life—not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.

Perhaps the most valuable thing that I got out of my second year was an understanding of the use and value of the Bible.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

Books are embalmed minds. They make the great of other days our present teachers.

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

The flow of revelation depends on your faith. As you test gospel principles by believing without knowing, the Spirit will begin to teach you. Gradually your faith will be replaced with knowledge.