Quotes About Teaching

Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The offcenter, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, openended state of affairs

Sooner or later we understand that although we can't make fear look pretty, it will nevertheless introduce us to all the teaching we've ever heard or read.

Learning not to cause harm to ourselves or others is a basic Buddhist teaching on the healing power of nonaggression.

Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

I think one should never be too busy to teach those who are anxious to learn.

Un buen libro es la preciosa savia del alma de un maestro, embalsamada y atesorada intencionadamente para una vida más allá de la vida.

Hannah wanted to put the next day's work on the blackboard. This would mean that she needn't turn her back on the class first thing, which is as unwise in junior teaching as in lion-taming.

Un buen libro es la preciosa savia del alma de un maestro, embalsamada y atesorada intencionadamente para una vida más allá de la vida y, como tal, no hay duda de que debe ser una artículo de primera necesidad

What I could offer Lisa was not the conventional haven of maternal love and concern but my mind and my energy. If she had not acquired these genetically then I was quite prepared to show her how to think and act. I was no good at kissing away tears or telling bedtime stories – any mother can do that: my uses were potentially far more significant.

Strange indeed that the immediate descendants of a Deist would have a Gospel text quoting Jesus' teaching on the resurrection on the alleged Deist's tomb!

Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels—training and development that never stop.

Schools everywhere are organized on the assumption that there is only one right way to learn and that it is the same way for everybody.

We have to remember that we are not just giving students feedback; we are also teaching them to provide it.

What if instead we said, "Look at how you …" That would simply turn children's attention to the process and away from fixed-theory explanations.12

The last two forms of feedback, "You tried really hard" and "You found a good way to do it; could you think of other ways that would also work?" focus on different aspects of the process—effort and strategy—and not on the person.

To be meaningful, teaching children to become literate is about the here and now, and what children can do with literacy to serve their interests.

We can keep the tests and other potentially distracting elements in mind, but we have to keep our heads up further than that as we deal with the moment-to-moment interactions with students.

The most important piece is to confirm what has been successful (so it will be repeated) and simultaneously assert the learner's competence so she will have the confidence to consider new

Pero si el cansancio es ya por si mismo la mejor acción...! No es necesario que con él se pueda dar comienzo a nada, porque de por sí él es ya un comenzar y un dar -dar comienzo, se dice en un lenguaje culto-. Su dar-comienzo es una enseñanza. El cansancio enseña, es utilizable.

Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as well as speak, and gain biblical insights from their parishioners as much as they pass them on.

Haven't you forgotten the first and most important lesson in all of philosophy, the lesson taught to all of us by Socrates, the father of philosophy? That you are wise only when you are humble, that the very first bit of wisdom and the prerequisite for all others is the realization that we are not wise

bad fortune is really just as good for you as good fortune is, in fact, it is better, because, he says, bad fortune teaches, while good fortune deceives. When

He is not the solution to our problems; He is the giver of our problems. Our problems are His tasks and our opportunities, His teaching and our education, His will and our sanctification.

Jesus teaches us what the Father teaches Him (John 7:17), He speaks what the Father speaks (John 8:2–11), and He says what the Father says (John 14:10). All of which comes from the Father through the Spirit: "For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit" (John 3:34).