Quotes About Teaching

We cannot teach people anything we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

History is philosophy learned from examples.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.