Quotes About Teaching

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

Compassion, caring, teaching, loving, and sharing your gifts, talents, and abilities are the gateways to power.

Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That's the power of story.

The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

By forcing schools and teachers to teach to the test, it has narrowed the educational experiences of millions of children and thus deprived our children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, of a real education.

We can raise the teaching profession by sharing what works, by taking the best of what we do and hanging it on the virtual wall.

Don't teach my child science; instead, teach my child how to learn science — or history or math or music.

You can give people a fish; you can teach them how to fish; or you can create the conditions where people would teach themselves to fish.

Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas, a young writer originally from Boston who was now living and teaching in New York. Man Gone Down is another big, ambitious novel—about race, the American Dream, fatherhood, money, and love.

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

In elk geval komt er een tijd dat het christendom uit boekjes geleerd zal worden op school, net zoals men nu de mythologie van de Grieken en de Romeinen op school leert.

At present the universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want to restore a Druid priesthood, you cannot do it by offering prizes for Druid-of-the Year. If you want Druids, you must grow forests.

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

He couldn't understand today. Who can? How can you pay a man a hundred thousand dollars a year to hit a baseball or put a basketball though a hoop—and pay a teacher only twelve thousand a year to teach a kid to become a citizen? Is that waste? Give it some thought.