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Quotes About Teaching

Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
~ Hosea Ballou
Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.
~ Robert S. Kaplan
Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.
~ C.S. Lewis
We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.
~ Viola Spolin
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
~ William Glasser
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.
~ Joseph Collins
Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.
~ Joseph Cornell
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]
~ Plautus
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
~ bell hooks
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
~ Frank McCourt
Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.
~ Thomas Carlyle
A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.
~ Edward Tufte
I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.
~ William Hung
One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
~ Adrian Grenier
When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.
~ George W. Bush
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
~ Martin Luther
There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.
~ James Dobson
I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.
~ Menno Simons
Jesus' words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.
~ George Eldon Ladd
In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship
~ Max Lucado
It's important to note that Jesus and Christ are two different faith affirmations. Hardly any Christians have been taught that - they think "Christ" is Jesus's last name.
~ Richard Rohr