Quotes About Teaching

in our day, the very A B C has become a science greatly too abstruse to be any longer taught by pointing a pin from letter to letter.

Tronstad returned to Trondheim, where he had resumed his teaching and studies at NTH. He channeled most of his prodigious energy, however, into his activities with the underground resistance, working particularly closely with several bands of university students who were pushing back against the German hold on the country.

Setting an example presupposes that someone will be left to learn from it. It's pointless when there's no one to set an example for.

Every book has something to teach us," she said, "and crucial knowledge at the right time can be a very powerful thing.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Then after all this reverse the procedure. Have a good love affair. And the thing you might learn is that nobody knows anything— not the State, nor the mice the garden hose or the North Star. And if you ever catch me teaching a creative writing class and you read this back to me I'll give you a straight A right up the pickle barrel.

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job, which gave me a considerable advantage over the teachers.

Suffering has been greater than all other teachings. I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.

Charles Harrington Elster

for a schoolroom without a physical atlas is like a needle without an eye)

he who has trembled before the pedagogue's rod will not face the spear willingly.

Most of us still believe to-day, that [history] is not merely concerned with the stringing together of facts in their correct order and the reconstruction of annals, but with something more. We must draw the moral . . . [W]e yet hold that history has its lessons, and that they can be discovered and taught. 'The experience of the past', as Stubbs wrote, 'can be carried into the present: study gives us maxims as well as dry facts.

A warning is in order. Reject any teaching that even suggests material wealth, physical health, or favorable circumstances have anything to do with the amount of faith you have or how pleased God happens to be with you. And beware those who teach that financial donations will unlock an endless abundance of God's blessings. They are false shepherds who will rob you of your money and destroy your relationship with God. The "faith" they proclaim is a toxic faith.

God constantly uses the lives of Bible characters to teach us, to encourage us, to warn us.

If he's serious about turning, I can probably walk him through the process using the tablet as a teaching tool: damn Alex for inventing such an easy-to-understand visualization. If you could broadcast it over a TV channel … my blood runs cold at the thought.)

LORD, thank you for your offer to carry my burdens for me. I give them all to you and I gladly receive your rest! I place myself under your yoke to learn from you. Teach me your wisdom that is humble and pure, and help me to walk in the ways you set before me. Thank you for your mercy and love that invite me to live my life resting and trusting in you!

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.

I teach mixed martial arts and I am having a gala time running a school dedicated to it.

Robert Bloch taught me about mixing horror and humor.

I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!