Quotes About Teaching

Heschel wrote of his childhood in Warsaw, there was one thing we did not have to look for and that was exaltation. Every moment is great, we were taught, every moment is unique.

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

Teaching which does not sound as if it is forcing something on you is not true teaching.

If you let me teach you not to end a sentence with a preposition, Edgar thought, I will save your life.

When Jesus developed leaders, He often said, "Follow this example," as in communion, or, "Teach and baptize like this," as in the Great Commission. If Jesus reproduced leaders after His "own kind," don't you think we will too?

Procedural knowledge is difficult or impossible to write down and difficult to teach. It is best taught by demonstration and best learned through practice.

The most effective way of helping people remember is to make it unnecessary.

Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then, the father proceeds with his instruction.

We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.

when giving a speech, position yourself as Yoda and your audience as Luke Skywalker.1

The strategy she recommends to her clients is simple: when giving a speech, position yourself as Yoda and your audience as Luke Skywalker

We do not live this life to build a monument to ourselves, but to pass our understanding of life on to those who come behind us so that their stories can be even more meaningful than ours.

God has never withheld love to teach me a lesson.

Life had taught him to be profoundly suspicious of coincidence, and it had similarly taught him to view any seemingly random conjunction of events or persons as coincidence and thus be suspicious of that, as well.

the really hard ones, just bring them right to me.' 'And what will you do, Papà, tell me how you can't help because maths is so different from when you went to school?' Chiara asked with a laugh. 'Isn't that what I always do with your maths homework, cara?

The purpose of the Scripture is for instruction in righteousness. It was not written to teach you geology or biology. It was written to show man's relationship to God and God's requirements for man and what man must do to be saved. You can write this over the first part of the book of Genesis: "What must I do to be saved?

Lucius Orbilius Pupillus [literally, "Student," a fine cognomen for a famous teacher], who published a book titled On Stupidity, in which he complains about the injustices suffered by teachers because of parents' negligence or interference.

I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.

Never be ashamed of being a learner: Jesus was one at twelve years of age; wen He was found in the temple, He was "sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions" (Luke 2:46).

Humility and silence are beautiful graces in young people. Never be ashamed of being a learner: Jesus was one at twelve years; when He was found in the temple, He was "sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions" (Luke 2:46).

the parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand and pulling down with the other.

People will never set their faces decidedly toward heaven and live like pilgrims until they really feel that they are in danger of hell. Let us all try to revive the old teaching about sin to our young children, our older children, and in our schools, colleges, and universities.

La sana doctrina protestante y evangélica es inútil si no va acompañada de una vida santa.