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Quotes About Teaching

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
~ Unknown
Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning -- the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind.
~ Unknown
write clearly, to refrain from obscure allusions or from supposing that my audience possesses any prior knowledge
~ Unknown
Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If once he has got the right fingering, plays in good time, with the notes fairly correct, then only pull him up about the rendering; and when he has arrived at that stage, don't let him stop for the sake of small faults, but point them out to him when he has played the piece through. . . I have always adopted this plan; it soon forms musicians which, after all, is one of the first aims of art and it gives less trouble both to master and pupil.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Stát, vláda, zákony se žádným zp?sobem nesmÄ›jí starat o Å¡kolu a vyu?ování, veÃ…â"¢ejné prostÃ…â"¢edky se na nÄ› nesmÄ›jí vynakládat, výchovu a výuku je tÃ…â"¢eba plnÄ› pÃ…â"¢enechat rodi??m a soukromým organizacím.
~ Ludwig von Mises
In the wild, a calf under the age of two will not survive without its mother. In the wild, a mother's job is to teach her daughter everything she will need to know to become a mother herself. In the wild, a mother and daughter stay together until one of them dies.
~ Jodi Picoult
There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn.
~ Jodi Picoult
There is something else about memory, something Thomas hadn't brought up. It's not a video recording. It's subjective. It's a culturally relevant account of what happened. It doesn't matter if it's accurate; it matters if it's important in some way to you. If it teaches you something you need to learn.
~ Jodi Picoult
There is an old Latin saying, "Qui docet, discit" (He who teaches, learns). In many
~ Joe Navarro
Children are not born with their hearts hardened in this fashion, not even Irish-Catholic children. They have to be taught by professionals.
~ Joe Queenan
Christ did not come to earth simply to be our moral teacher. If that were His only mission, He could have come as He did in former times, as the Angel of the Lord, without our flesh and blood to encumber Him. Instead, He had to become like us so that He could raise us up to be like Him.
~ Joel R. Beeke
The constant challenge in Christian theology is to preach the whole counsel of God, while not emphazing one point of doctrine in a way that denies another.
~ Joel R. Beeke
Jesus and the apostles didn't think that eschatology was irrelevant two thousand years ago
~ Joel Richardson
But mind, when he explains anything to you, you won't be able to understand; but don't ask any questions, or else he will go on explaining and you will understand less than ever. Later when you have learnt more and know about things yourself, then you will begin to understand what he meant.
~ Johanna Spyri
Friendship with children is the map for transferring to them anything you want them to have.
~ John Arthur
He liked to bewilder his pupils, it was a form of tyranny.
~ John Banville
Lord, I want to know You the best a man can know You. I want to please You the best a man can please You. Show me Your heart, reveal to me what is important to You, and show me what is not so important to You. Teach me Your ways and may my life bring joy to You . . .
~ John Bevere
Teach us to make the most of our time … and make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts successful! —Psalm 90:12, 17 NLT
~ John Bevere
We have much to say…since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. …But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (Hebrews 5:11–12, 14) It's
~ John Bevere
As stewards of the gospel, we have no greater call than to prepare others for eternity with grace and truth. I want you eternally sure.
~ John Bevere
I'm educating strangers on how they can live better lives. And making sure that those with the wrong opinions are held to account.
~ John Boyne
Learn from examples in history lest thou be made an example
~ Unknown