Quotes About Teaching

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

In every situation, we can find sacred lesson.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

I feel like people who actually know how music works on a technical level need to explain it to the rest of us a little more often.

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.

All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

Let your teaching reveal the nature of the kingdom of God

Anything we are preaching to people is what they become

Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee.