Quotes About Teaching

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.

The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.

Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?