Quotes About Teaching

This seemed to be how dads taught their boys to be men, but there had to be a point, maybe early on, when they were able to hold their hands. One tiny one engulfed by one big one.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.