Quotes About Teaching

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

Mother Wolf, you called yourself. What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn't make me in your image. You made me into something worse. I have to know what that is.

The gentle heart and its acts are the keys to enlightenment, and will open doors to worlds you have never imagined." ... ask yourselves this: when Adara Farclaw spoke of keys and doors, was she speaking only of philosophies or was she teaching us how to take our own first steps upon the road between worlds?

What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn't make me in your image. You made me into something worse.

Their surprise was compounded by the fact that these new churches were separated not only by geography but also by subtle, but important, differences in Christian teaching that almost no one had noticed so long as their attention had been fixed on reforming the whole Western church.

The Council of Chalcedon was an important event—and a critical turning point—in the history of Christianity both because it clarified orthodox Christian teaching and also because of the way that it accomplished that clarification.

you must work very hard to accept the Buddha nature. And I know how you can resolve this." But he would not tell me that day, saying it was best left for a later time. And the next day, he died. My brother monks found it hilarious. "He will tell you when he gets back," one of the elders told me, laugh­ing. I

that simply teaching doctrine or preaching on a matter does not equate to actual ministry. Further engagement is required.

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

I notice that the goddamn glue is blobbing all over the plastic and Matt wants to know, "Dad, don't you think you should read the directions?" and I want to tell my son: Don't you realize that I've never read the directions to anything in my life?

By direct command, example, implication, or principles, God's Word tells us everything we need to know about every aspect of following him in life—from dating to marriage, from working to grieving, from evangelizing to eating. What should churches do? The answer is in the Bible.

The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel. Whether it leads to such distortions or results from them, serious departures from the Bible's teaching about the church normally signify other, more central misunderstandings about the Christian faith.3

My students, alas, usually lack the confidence to acknowledge what would be their most precious asset for learning: their ignorance.

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.

Because teaching teaches teachers to teach, this

Because writing teaches writers to write, this

give people a tool, and they'll code for a day; teach them how to build tools, and they'll code for a lifetime. This

We need to walk the path we're calling our children to follow.

Yet Yogi Bhajan describes mastery of this practice as arising from teaching it: "If you want to learn something," he says, "read it. If you want to know something, write it. If you want to MASTER something, Teach it!" (Bhajan).

This is why governments all over the world love missionaries—they civilize people and get them into the money system," Suelo observes now, but at the time he was flabbergasted. What of Jesus's teaching his followers to give up possessions? "And suddenly it dawned on me: if you were going to call something Antichrist, this would be it. The people who were promoting this so-called Christianity are really Antichrist.

I've just attended another talk by Fr. Richard, what Emerging Christianity is not! He said that EC is not oppositional and is non-dualistic, and also that Jesus, with sayings like "let the wheat and the weeds grow together" and "my Father's love shines on the good and the bad," was the first non-dualistic teacher of the West. "Jesus was far happier for us to live with the shadow rather than to project it" said Rohr.

To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.