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Quotes About Teaching

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.
~ Susanna Wesley
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
~ James Baldwin
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~ Franklin P. Adams
Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
~ Lydia Sigourney
Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.
~ Isocrates
The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.
~ Confucius
What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this
~ Kevin Heath
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
~ Josh Billings
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them
~ Arnold Bennett
First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.
~ Jurgen Prochnow
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
~ William Cecil
Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.
~ Jean Ashworth Bartle
Parenting is the most important profession in the world.
~ John Wooden
In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.
~ Gerhard E Frost
I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.
~ Sylvia Ashton-Warner
We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.
~ Phyllis Diller
What did I tell you about plastic ties? Only for humans, Julie murmured.If you don't listen to me, I can't teach you anything.
~ Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays
Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.
~ David W. Earle
The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.
~ Claire Cross, Double Trouble
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.
~ Paul the Apostle
You need to learn patience, you grasshopper
~ Nicholas Sparks
Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.
~ Emily Post
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger.
~ Lynn G. Robbins