Quotes About Teaching

There are many to tell what to Learn.But there is no one to teach how to learn.

As a teacher, the desire to teach is valuable, but the desire to educate is priceless.

My love and anger are in deep conversation these days, teaching and learning from one another. I'm doing my best to stay open to all of it.I'm curious to see what love does with all my anger.

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.

In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.

There are two types of teachers. Those who tell you what you want to hear and those who tell you what you don't want to hear.

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

In time Logan considered Lincoln "a pretty good lawyer" and taught him a great deal about the importance of painstaking preparation, of compiling an exact and thorough brief before defending a client in court.

We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy "one word" Zen. When asked "What is the highest teaching of the Buddha?" he replied: "An appropriate statement." On another occasion, he answered: "Cake." I admired his directness.

In On the Origin of Species, Darwin openly acknowledged important weaknesses in his theory and professed his own doubts about key aspects of it. Yet today's public defenders of a Darwin-only science curriculum apparently do not want these, or any other scientific doubts about contemporary Darwinian theory, reported to students.

I teach Sunday school, motherf*****.

OK: It's exactly the same teaching with aversion. Go into it. Go into your anger, your fear. Feel it in the body. Get to know it. Find the energy at its heart. Find the secret gift at its center. Don't be afraid. Let it wash over you. Know it.

The Tao te Ching says, "[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel Ã¢â'¬Â¦ [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

When we use any teaching approach, we need to be clear exactly what it's intended to achieve. This clarity should be apparent not just to us but also to students. So a lecture should begin with the lecturer explaining its purpose, its relevance to course goals and the syllabus, and its connection to earlier class sessions or assignments.

What immersion has taught us is that comprehensible subject-matter teaching is language teaching — the subject matter class is a language class if it is made comprehensible. In fact, the subject-matter class may even be better than the language class for language acquisition.

As R. C. learned from Edwards, truths that ignite the passion are both rational ("'Tis Rational") and biblical ("'Tis Biblical"). R. C. was both laying a foundation for his future teaching ministry and establishing a pattern that he would follow all of his life, a pattern of Bible study, not just Bible reading.

The church simply can't afford to forget the lesson of the Reformation about the utter supremacy of the gospel in everything the church does. Elie