Quotes About Teaching

you have to be taught to be secondclass;your not born that way

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed -- only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be -- then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.

Pestalozzi.

We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying to teach our children how to get along in the world, and that we believe this is our job. A child who can fend for himself is a lot safer than one forever coddled, because the coddled child will not have Mom or Dad around all the time, even though they act as if he will.

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

Teach French and unteach sincerity.

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

So LISTEN UP, class! Today we're going to learn all about chain reactions.

Textbooks in American history stand in sharp contrast to other teaching materials. Why are history textbooks so bad? Nationalism is one of the culprits. Textbooks are often muddled by the conflicting desires to promote inquiry and to indoctrinate blind patriotism. "Take a look in your history book, and you'll see why we should be proud" goes an anthem often sung by high school glee clubs. But we need not even look inside.

The duty of the historian," Gordon Craig has reminded us, "is to restore to the past the options it once had." Craig also pointed out that this is an appropriate way to teach history and to make it memorable.

Old myths never die—they just become embedded in the textbooks. —THOMAS BAILEY

Textbooks in American history stand in sharp contrast to other teaching materials. Why are history textbooks so bad? Nationalism is one of the culprits. Textbooks are often muddled by the conflicting desires to promote inquiry and to indoctrinate blind patriotism.

history textbooks need to disabuse students of the flat-earth myth.

Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. —ANATOLE FRANCE

history is the only field in which the more courses students take, the stupider they become.

Are you going to tell kids that Thomas Jefferson didn't believe in Jesus? Not me!' a textbook editor exclaimed to me.

He, who learns, teaches. ~ Ethiopian Proverb

These are the lessons of being human, being vulnerable, and seeking wholeness with all that is. They are part of the pathway to power. The power lies in the wisdom and understanding of one's role in the Great Mystery, and in honouring every little thing as a teacher. The lessons taught are eternal and forever forthcoming. If the learning is over, so is the magic and the life.

This is my favorite part of the day. "Good morning, Class Two C," I say. The entire class leaps up and sings out, "Good morning, miss!" Twenty-three faces are smiling at me. Sometimes they shout it with so much conviction that I laugh.

Preparing the young minds and hearts of the next generation is imperative work.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

Human nature needs more lessons than a weekly sermon can convey.