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Quotes About Teaching

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
~ Confucius
The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.
~ Saadi
Every one of my father's songs is a lesson.
~ Damian Marley
No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!
~ Pope Leo X
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
~ Jon Stewart
I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton
~ John le Carre
Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.
~ Nicole Krauss
All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.
~ George Eliot
My father-he pretty much taught me everything I know. He still pushes me to be the best I can.
~ Tim Lincecum
My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.
~ Richard Ernst
My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.
~ Diego Della Valle
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
~ Sam Abell
My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.
~ John Stuart Mill
All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.
~ Meister Eckhart
My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.
~ Richard Griffiths
My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.
~ Sara Maitland
Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.
~ Scott Thompson
Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
~ Karen DeCrow
Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.
~ Pope Clement I
If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.
~ Keith Johnstone
I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.
~ Martin Luther
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.
~ Karl Kraus
The only immortality that humans can achieve is through the passing on of our knowledge.
~ Unknown