Quotes About Teaching

The most important task of teaching is to teach what it means to know.

Those of us who teach math should try to turn this bug into a feature. We should be up front about the fact that word problems force us to make simplifying assumptions. That's a valuable skill—it's called mathematical modeling.

It matters to God what is preached. And it matters to Him how it is preached. No man is free to preach whatever and however he so chooses.

He who has ceased to learn has ceased to teach. He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit.

Calvin was not a silver-tongued orator, but a Bible-teaching expositor. Above all else, he desired to bring his people to the Scriptures.

The aim of a good teacher, [is] to turn away the eyes of men from the world, that they may look up to heaven.

The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.

The fact remains, no church can rise any higher than its pulpit.

The heart of the wise teaches his mouth and adds persuasiveness to his lips. —Proverbs 16:23

MATTHEW 18:5-7 "And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. 6But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. 7Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

A modern university dean might feel that this danger was a just punishment for Galileo's evasion of teaching duties. But

People demanded of those who were suffering their way through the German autumn that they should learn from their misfortune. No one thought that hunger is a very bad teacher

Her power had fed the prince of light, and she had taught him her darkest secrets.

I enjoyed teaching you. I enjoyed your sense of wonder. Now I feel some of that is destroyed by truth, by awareness.

Some wisdom can be learned only from the young. I know this, because I do constantly.

This was how it should be, the close relationship between apprentice and master. The learning, the wonder of it.

Daniel, you've suffered from loving only unimaginative lovers. Let me teach you a little." "I will, but not now.

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

a time when many great thinkers and philosophers emerged, all writing and debating their ideas. Most interestingly, people actually liked to listen to them! These scholars were also teachers or gurus and had schools called ashramas or gurukulas, where they taught students. Towns even had special assembly halls for debates called kautuhala shalas, that is, halls for arousing curiosity!

Do you remember his science project, Harry Sue, on the trajectory of spitballs? I tell you, that modest little display taught our students more about physics than I could accomplish in a weeklong unit at the middle school

The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.