Quotes About Teaching

He is teaching them to eat those seeds," she said through clenched teeth, "out of Raina and Berdine's hands. The two of them were giggling." – Cara

Zedd had taught him that the creator was simply another name for the force of balance in all things, and not some wise man sitting in judgment.

Master Rahl guide us. Master Rahl teach us. Master Rahl protect us. In your light we thrive. In your mercy we are sheltered. In your wisdom we are humbled." She put her heart and soul into the words. "We live only to serve. Our lives are yours.

Come to me, my love. I want you very badly right now." He nodded and started to reach for the Agiel on the side table. Denna touched his wrist. "Tonight, I want you without the Agiel. Please? Teach me what it's like without the pain?

That sounds like magic. There is not supposed to be any magic in Westland." "He says it's not; that anyone can learn. He's always trying to teach me. He mocks me whenever I say it looks like it will rain. His eyes get real big and he says, 'Magic! You must have magic, my boy, to read the clouds and know the future so.

Master Rahl guide us. Master Rahl teach us. Master Rahl protect us," Kahlan murmured yet again. "In your light we thrive. In your mercy we are sheltered. In your wisdom we are humbled. We live only to serve. Our lives are yours.

If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!

I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour, said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible, he said. And who would you send to teach the humans?

Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted this fact and had perfected various devices for avoiding it. But this was perfectly all right because, to be fair, so had the students.

A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.

Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months, said the Baron. Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it's too late.

An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

She taught me so much, she said to herself. She built me as we were walking around after the sheep, and she told me all those things that I needed to know, and the first thing was to look after people. Of course, the other thing had been to look after the sheep.

My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon.

A foolish man clings to wrong views, mocks the teaching of the righteous, and invites ruin and destruction.

if I am failing in my teaching, my correction will likely fail as well.

Denn man hört nie auf erziehungsbedürftig zu sein; ich gehe noch jetzt in die Schule und lerne von Leuten, die meine Enkel sein könnten.

Moreau made me, but Edward taught me to be human.

You can't motivate a student you don't know.

Teaching is an art that can be learned; learning from a teacher is an art that can be learned; anyone who tries--and we all try--can gain a certain competence in teaching; but a real teacher, now---he has a talent. He has a gift like a fine artist or musician or sculptor. Oh, we think highly of teachers, and of teaching. Teaching is part of loving, you know

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon. Don't mistake the finger for the moon. The raft is not the shore. If we cling to the raft, if we cling to the finger, we miss everything.