Quotes About Teaching

The people who teach us something retain a particularly vivid place in our memories.

The people who teach us something retain a particularly vivid place in our memories. I'd been a parent for about ten minutes when I met the man, but he taught me, with a small gesture, one of the most important things about the job: kindness, intuition, touch, and that sometimes you don't even need words.

The people who teach us something retain a particularly vivid place in our memories. I'd been a parent for about ten minutes when I met the man, but he taught me, with a small gesture, one of the most important things about the job: kindness, intuition, touch, and that sometimes you don't even need words.

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

Chet suddenly wished she had quit teaching the class because of him, that he'd had any effect on her at all.

They were presented in enigmas, clad in riddles, and taught by an wise men in the most mysterious way that could be devised, not because they contain some secret evil, or are contrary to the fundamental principles of the Law (as fools think who are only philosophers in their own eyes), but because of the incapacity of man to comprehend them at the beginning of his studies:

When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well-established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools—I prefer to address myself to the one man.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Be not as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding; whose mouth must be held with bit and bridle" (Psalms 32:9).

When I have a difficult subject before me — when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools — I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so painful. We're showing them how to accomplish the ritual murder of ourselves.

That is, after all, how it works. We don't come here with hatred in our hearts. We have to be taught to feel that way. We have to want to be that way, to please the people who teach us to want to be like them. Strange, to think that people might learn to hate as a way of getting some approval, some acceptance, some love. I thought about all that

Weil Gottes Wort in der Geschichte und das heißt in der Vergangenheit zu uns gesprochen hat, darum ist die Erinnerung, die Wiederholung des Gelernten täglich nötige Übung.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

That is, I feel, the concern of the educator - to teach how to be sensitive to the differences in ourselves as well as outside ourselves, not to supervise the memorization of facts.

A key point about how training differs from education, the class is focused on a specific topic.

Here our best guide is once again the Venerable Bede,

In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.

Teach self-soothing. Learning self-soothing does not mean that your child will necessarily cry. Patience and perseverance will pay off.

Lorsque, bien plus tard, au lycée, M. Laplane nous enseigna que la chouette était l'oiseau de Minerve, et qu'elle représentait la sagesse, je fis un si grand éclat de rire qu'il me fallut copier, jusqu'au gérondif, quatre verbes qui, de plus, étaient déponents.

Mais il y a une chose qui ne changera jamais : c'est l'amour des enfants pour leur mère, et j'ai écrit ce livre pour apprendre aux petite filles comment leurs fils les aimeront un jour...

Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.

The one thing needed is the decision to live so continually in Jesus' presence as to be always covered with the dust of the rabbi. Martha got

can be "sitting at Jesus feet" when I'm kneeling in prayer or negotiating a contract or fixing my kids lunch or watching a movie. All it requires is my asking him to be my teacher and companion in this moment.