Quotes About Teaching

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

The Norse runes and the Hebrew alphabet are simple letters for spelling words, but also deep symbols of cosmic significance. This magical sense is preserved in our word for teaching children how to manipulate letters to make words: spelling. When you "spell" a word correctly, you are in effect casting a spell, charging these abstract, arbitrary symbols with meaning and power.

Over the years Saul has heard of Yeshua's teaching and they never made any sense to him: sometimes he had preached as a devout Jew, but at others spoke as an apostate. He had some learning but no understanding, and he did not keep faith with the Lord's sacred words. That was why his followers had been led astray into blasphemy and perversion. That was why Saul spied on them, bore witness against them. But now he is in their house and they have saved him

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?

The symbolism of this strange episode remains obscure until, in the New Testament, Jesus explains it to Nicodemus:

The greatest service you can provide to the people in your care is to make the Bible accessible to them.

The best Bible teaching is not that which dazzles people with the profound intellect of their teacher, but that which puts its truth squarely in their hands.

Whoa, Rebecca," Talia said smiling even wider, "Walking on the wild side, are we?" Raisa seemed to think the situation needed more explaining. "He - uh - I'm tutoring him." "She is," Han said solemnly. "She's very good. I'm learning a lot." Pearlie snickered. "What's she teaching you?" "Well," Han said, "we're jumping around a lot.

The princess is strong. And because she's strong, she's fragile. If somebody doesn't teach her that fact, she'll break.

It would be better to never teach them anything at all about God than to teach them the word of God and then bring them up in a society that nullifies the whole thing.

In the mid-1990s, while serving as senior editor for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, I proposed a thought experiment to test whether Buddhism could spread around the globe. That test consisted of a single question: Did Buddhism have a teaching that was so universal it could pass quickly from person to person without getting stopped in its tracks, leaping across national, ethnic, economic, and even religious boundaries?

That is why, in order to arrive at a suitable message for the coming millennium, Buddhism has reached clear back to its beginnings to reclaim a belief in the fundamental equality and dignity of all life and bring that teaching back to the fore.

Did you win? he asks. It wasn't a match, I say. It was a lesson.

The more the Word of God permeates your own life and heart, the more you'll be able to bring God's Word into the lives of your children.

You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

A teacher can't teach you how to write. What a teacher can do is show a writer how not to write.

To put it briefly, the secret is to put it briefly. But you always think that's what you're doing, until experience teaches you that you aren't being brief enough.

Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul

She doesn't drink when she's driving. Best move I ever made, teaching her the basics of the internal combustion engine. Saved my life on a number of occasions.

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.