Quotes About Teaching

Be very sure, if you would train children for heaven, they are hints that ought not to be lightly set aside.

You made your students write stories about happiness and they were, you said, the worst stories of the year.

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

Children's understanding of morality is the same whether they're of one religion, another religion or no religion. But if it's simply indoctrination, it's worse than doing nothing. It interferes with moral development." —Larry Nucci, director, Office for Studies in Moral Development, University of Illinois

I eventually learned to correct behaviors by having my children recognize and name the problem themselves. Replace "Don't pull the dog's ears" with "Why is pulling the dog's ears a bad idea?" Very young kids can grapple with that, and you've required them to reason, not just to obey. Good practice.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

As a General Authority, it is my responsibility to preach general principles. When I do, I don't try to define all the exceptions... I only teach the general rules. Whether an exception applies to you is your responsibility. You must work out individually between you and the Lord.

To teach a student riddle a student with his own life To teach a student ask a student the question he asked you in words more learned than his words until he relents and he says a student There is no answer I don't know

Nobody is more indoctrinated than the indoctrinator.

I'll whip you kids into shape." "Is that legal?" I asked.

I don't get it. For the first few years of your life, all grown-ups do is teach you how to talk. And then, for the rest of your life, all they do is tell you to stop talking. What's up with that?

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be here teaching you, I could be home sitting on my comfortable

Teach boys that emotional courage is courage, and that courage and empathy are the sources of real strength in life.

I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

For those who wondered how an incarnated God would behave as a child, Smith added three verses explaining that "Jesus … served under his father, and he spake not as other men, neither could he be taught; for he needed not that any man should teach him.

If you don't learn your lessons, you become one for everyone else

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. —Thomas Carruthers