Quotes About Teaching

Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them do what is right, just, and fair. Proverbs 1:3

You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.

Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Frecuentemente hay más que aprender de las preguntas inesperadas de un niño que de los discursos de un hombre" (John Locke)

Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.

You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.

Karma isn't a punishment, it's a teaching aid. The idea behind reincarnation is that for most of us one lifetime isn't enough to learn all the spiritual lessons we're signed up for. Karma gives us a chance to retake the classes we flunk. If we mess things up in one lifetime, we're allowed to come back and experience a similar situation—maybe from another angle—so we can learn the lessons we didn't get the first time.

Mentoring at its very core is a learning relationship, and the phases I discuss and explore in this book are structures and processes that contribute to learning.

They call it coaching, but it is teaching. You do not just tell them ... you show them the reasons.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

The quality which gave such force to Calvin's teaching was his close adherence to the Bible as an inspired and authoritative book.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

The teacher must ever walk warily between the necessity of inducing those conformities which in every generation reaffirm our rebellious humanity, and of allowing for the free play of the creative spirit.

Academics with money, or "generational wealth," as her dad calls it. And when he says it, he laughs, because everyone knows that professors don't make a ton of money from teaching.

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.

Wrong teaching–specifically religious doctrines–nullifies the power of the Word of God and makes it of no effect.

Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.

Black wizards don't just grow up like toadstools, you know. Someone has to teach them complicated things like summoning demons, ritual magic, and clichéd villain dialogue.

It's not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it.

You aren't explaining it very well." "Maybe," I said. "Or maybe you aren't learning it very well.

She is not a cookie. Neither is she a biscuit, a PopTart, Sweet TART, apple tart, or any other kind of pastry. She is my apprentice.

Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be.

What is teaching but the art of planting and nurturing power?" Lea replied. "Mortals prattle on about lonely impulses of delight and the gift of knowledge, and think that teaching is a trade like metalsmithing or healing or telling lies on television. It is not. It is the dissemination of power unto a new generation and nothing less. For her, as for you, lessons demand real risk in order to attain their true rewards.