Quotes About Teaching

The more you test him, the slower he will learn and the less he'll want to do. The less you test him, the quicker he will learn and the more he'll want to learn. Knowledge is the most precious gift you can give your child. Give it as generously as you give him food.

We have found over and over again that a child at home with mother can learn as much in an hour as the average child learns in a day at school; as much in a day as the average child learns in a week at school.

Así pues, lo único que debe hacer usted para enseñar cualquier cosa a su niño pequeño es organizarse de tal modo que le cause placer. Y eso no significa jugar. Los niños no quieren jugar, lo que quieren es aprender.

It is a basic tenet of all teaching that it should begin with the known and the concrete, progress from this to the new and the unknown, and last of all, to what is abstract. Nothing could be more abstract to the two-year-old brain than the letter b. It is a tribute to the genius of children that they ever learn it. It

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

I began to sense that a big part of our problem is simple ignorance of what the oldest cultures have to teach.

In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: "Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive.

But controversy is a teacher.

Flo kept reminding me that they gave us an opportunity to teach, though each one was also punishing to the soul.

I thank him for surviving—and teaching.

When people say to me, 'What should I tell my daughter?' I always say: The most important thing is to listen. This is how she learns she has something to say.

As we explained our idea of teaching Gandhian tactics to women's movements, she listened to us patiently, sitting and rocking on her veranda, sipping tea. When we were finished, she said, 'Well, of course, my dears. We taught him everything we knew.

Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that kitchen discover that we were taught more about ancient Greece and Rome than about the history of the land we live on. We learned about the pyramid builders of Egypt but not the pyramid builders of the Mississippi River.

The fundamental lessons of life are taught in the class of truth.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

Credo nella pedagogia insieme alla democrazia, perché non c'è l'una senza l'altra.

Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who condescended to come into this world of misery, struggle, and pain to touch men's hearts for good, to teach the way of eternal life, and to give Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind. How different, how empty our lives would be without Him. How infinite is our opportunity for exaltation made possible through His redeeming love.

Teach them [your children] in such a way that they could not misunderstand the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

It is so tremendously important that the women of the Church stand strong and immovable for that which is correct and proper under the plan of the Lord. They must begin in their own homes. They can teach it in their classes. They can voice it in their communities. They must be the teachers and the guardians of their daughters. When you save a girl, you save generations. I see this as one bright shining hope in a world that is marching toward moral self-destruction.

The greatest job that any woman will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. There is no other thing that will compare with that, regardless of what she does.

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

the mind of the child is like soft wax, which will take the least stamp you put on it, so let it be your care, who teach, to make the stamp good, that the wax be not hurt.