Quotes About Teaching

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

Be sure you don't lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.

Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.