Quotes About Teaching

I speak loudest when I listen the most. My greatest gifts are in what I am willing to appreciatively receive from my students.

Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember. Involve me, and I'll learn.

I start to wonder if there be any chance of schooling for any of them, for who will take to teaching a child that could kill her with one bite?

parents must constantly remind their children to say, "Thank you." It's one of the last and hardest things to teach naturally rebellious kids.

a wise person learns from their mistakes—a much wiser person learns from someone else's mistakes.

Change must begin with the parent. In Deuteronomy 6:6, God tells parents, "these words that I command you today shall be on your heart." Our children need to see in our own lives daily what we want to see in theirs.

For example, we must teach our children what it means to fear and love God (Prov. 1:7 and Matt. 22:37-40). They need to understand that their lives are, first of all, about a relationship with God.

As for the boys..."vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matter what.

Moon had the feeling Stone was inadvertently teaching the kethel how to be sarcastic. That wasn't going to work out for anybody.

ART said, You are aboard the Perihelion, registered teaching and research vessel of the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. Then it added, I'm not going to hurt your humans, you little idiot.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. —Haim Ginott

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.

Education should be exercise; it has become massage.

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes — incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Marjorie Luesebrink of Irvine Valley College convinced me I could write fiction at a time when, in retrospect, it's clear

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.

And what is it that preachers do, to this very day? Do they interpret and expound the Scriptures? Yet if the Scripture they expound is uncertain, who can assure us that heir exposition is certain? Another new exposition? And who will expound the exposition? At this rate we will go on forever. In short, if Scripture is obscure or ambiguous, what part is there in God's giving it to us?

Although we are all equally priests, we cannot all publicly minister and teach.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

Stop your complaining, stop your doctoring; this tumult has arisen and is direct from above, and it will not cease till it makes all the adversaries of the Word like the mud on the streets. But it is sad to have to remind a theologian like you of these things, as if you were a pupil instead of one who ought to be teaching others.

The people, especially in the villages, know nothing at all of Christian doctrine; and many pastors are sadly unfit and incompetent to teach. Yet all are called Christians, have been baptized, and enjoy the use of the Sacrament, although they know neither the Lord's Prayer, nor the Creed, nor the Ten Commandments...