Quotes About Teaching

I'd love to see him lay a single strip on her white back. It would be the most potent lesson either of them ever got.

Not once has the instructor talked about parenting after the baby is born. Instead, we fetishize labor. We focus on it to the exclusion of each other, our children, our futures. Is this because it can be taught, and parenting can't? Because, Americans to the bitter end, we love a sport, grow bored by things more subtle?

Sûfîsm, or as some would define it "mystical Islam" has always honored the Divine Feminine. Of course, Allâh has both masculine and feminine qualities, but to the Sûfî, Allâh has always been the Beloved and the Sûfî has always been the Lover. The Qur'an, referring to the final Day, perhaps divulges a portion of this teaching: "And there is manifest to them of God what they had not expected to see.

Christianity did not begin as a monolithic revelation. In other words, it did not begin as a single teaching directly coming from the mouth of Jesus. After Jesus' death, there were many different and opposing viewpoints concerning who he was and what he taught. There were many different groups competing for converts. Each of these diverse groups traced their teaching back to the individual apostles and each had books to support their points of view.

It is not an easy thing for certain men and women to remain hidden. However, they accomplish this in a variety of ways. Remember the story of the Sufi Master who deliberately passed wind to rid himself of students who were not there out of a love of Essence? Many stories such as this have been told.

Many great truths are told through stories and tales. 'Story' is a part of whom we are as human beings. For untold centuries, occult truths were passed on orally from teacher to student, as stories. Whether these stories were true or not, did not matter. It still does not matter, as long as the message is conveyed.

More wisdom can be transmitted through a novel than a textbook.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Ninety percent of everything we know has been passed along through story.

We're committed, as she gets older, to teaching her about her birth culture. And of course she already loves the rice. Actually, it was her first solid food.

The librarian sighs. How can you know, she says, if no one teaches you, and no one ever talks about it, and all the books about it are gone?

mientras su madre prometía a las alumnas enseñarles todo lo que una joven dama necesitaba para llevar las riendas de una casa. Como si una casa, pensó Marilyn, fuera algo que pudiera irse galopando si te distraías.

Münaka?ada zafer, ma?lup olan?nd?r, yenilmek zenginle?mektir. …Münaka?a hakikati birlikte aramakt?r… Hakikat bin bir cepheli, bin bir görünü?lü. Kar??n?zdaki, göremedi?inizi gösterecek size. Sizden farkl? dü?ündü?ü ölçüde yarat?c? ve ö?reticidir.

?yilik, yola dü?en, yoldan toplanan bir ?ey de?ildir. Tesadüfen ele geçen bir ?ey de de?ildir. ?nsan iyili?i ancak ba?ka bir insandan ö?renir.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.

The idea is that when the teaching begins to happen, it is an experience—but experience needs language, and at the same time, language needs experience.

Chögyam Trungpa

Jamgön Kongtrül of Sechen and Khenpo Kangshar—leading teachers in the Nyingma and Kagyü lineages.

However, he expressed a conviction that, in order to take root in the West, the dharma needed to be taught free from cultural trappings and religious fascination.

No matter what the practice or teaching, ego loves to wait in ambush to appropriate spirituality for its own survival and gain.

There is a saying in the Tibetan scriptures: "Knowledge must be burned, hammered, and beaten like pure gold. Then one can wear it as an ornament." So when you receive spiritual instruction from the hands of another, you do not take it uncritically, but you burn it, you hammer it, you beat it, until the bright, dignified color of gold appears. Then you craft it into an ornament, whatever design you like, and you put it on.

If you want to really learn something, try teaching it to someone else.

Education requires both a teacher and a student. Many of us are too often reluctant to be a student.