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Quotes About Teaching

A good example is the best sermon.
~ Anonymous
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
~ Edmund Burke
First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
~ Chinese proverb
It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils, and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
~ J. F. Boyse
The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.
~ Cicero
He who can does. He who can't, teaches.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
~ Gloria Steinem
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
~ Galileo
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
~ Napoleon
The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.
~ Northrop Frye
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.
~ Bible
Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
~ Bible
If we try to envisage an 'average Canadian writer' we can see him living near a campus, teaching at least part-time at university level, mingling too much for his work's good with academics, doing as much writing as he can for the CBC, and always hoping for a Canada Council Fellowship.
~ George Woodcock
Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person how to use the internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
~ Internet meme
Give a man a fish — he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to start a commercial fishing business — he will deplete the seas, overfish the oceans, wipe out entire ecosystems, and devastate the planet.
~ Author Unknown
And is then example nothing? It is everything. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
~ Edmund Burke, 1796
What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
God is love. Love is always present, surrounding us; guiding, growing, and teaching us. Even in the midst of total chaos, pain, and dysfunction, love is calling us to a higher experience and expression.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Sharing what you've learned and helping others is a good source of renewal.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
TRIED SO HARD TO KEEP THEM FROM FAILING THAT I FAILED TO GIVE THEM WHAT THEY NEEDED TO SUCCEED
~ Iyanla Vanzant
is very hard to learn to trust yourself when you are taught that you are bad, wrong, and cursed—and that you did all of it to yourself. H
~ Iyanla Vanzant
There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics, or that if you remove His theology - His beliefs about God and judgment, future woe for the wicked and future blessedness for the good - you can leave His ethical teaching intact.
~ J. Gresham Machen
Roarke) Those who can't, teach. Isn't there some saying along those lines? (Eve) She gave him a blank look. If you can't do something, how the hell can you teach somebody else to do it?
~ J.D. Robb