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Quotes About Teaching

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.
~ Francis Bacon
By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.
~ Glenn Beck
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
~ Gloria Steinem
I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't think others know a lot about it.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.
~ Lysander Spooner
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself
~ Meg Cabot
My dad taught me my faith, and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his life.
~ Mel Gibson
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.
~ Michelle Pfeiffer
Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.
~ H. L. Mencken
The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.
~ Henry Van Dyke
I'm nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.
~ J. B. Smoove
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.
~ James Anthony Froude
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality thing where it's like, "A man and woman have a baby."
~ Jen Kirkman
I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.
~ Jerry Hall
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That best academy, a mother's knee.
~ James Russell Lowell
A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.
~ Kirsten Dunst
I really learned it all from mothers.
~ Benjamin Spock
My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.
~ Jane McGonigal