Quotes About Teaching

Our goal is to help one another live with a "God's story" mentality. Our mission is to teach, admonish, and encourage one another to rest in his sovereignty, rather than establishing our own; to rely on his grace rather than performing on our own; and to submit to his glory rather than seeking our own.

We need to do everything we can to put the glory of God and his grace before our children so that the awe of God would rule over their hearts.

You could argue that the chief reason God put parents in children's lives is so that they would know him.

Principle: Your children need God's law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish.

Your children must learn early that they have been born into a world of authority, and they're not it.

Principio: Nada es más importante en tu vida que ser un instrumento para formar el alma de una persona.

If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand.

And this power in their teaching had to do, first of all, with the content of what they taught – that is, with the way "what they said" made clear "what really is.

But you need to cultivate patience, youngling. And you need to listen to my words of wisdom, because as far as you are concerned, I am Obi-Wan fucking Kenobi. Okay?

Do you need to "find time to teach"? Of course not---you have a teaching schedule, and you never miss it. [...] Finding time is a destructive way of thinking about writing. Never say this again. Instead of finding time to write, allot time to write.

no man is ever a complete failure. He can always serve as a horrible example!

All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.

It's very hard to teach anything to a young man who knows everything.

I don't fatten frogs to feed snakes. Are you stupid? I taught you better than that. A wet pussy and a dry purse don't match.

If softball leagues treated players as delicately as teachers do students, there'd be a rule about not striking out. After three strikes, they'd bring out a tee, or maybe the coach would go up there, take the bat out of the kid's hands, and hit it for him. We'd tell ourselves we were protecting their fragile psyches, when in reality we'd be sending a clear message: You can't do it, so I'll do it for you.

Since I have, by my behavior, taught them to treat me the way they are treating me, I can often, by changing my behavior, teach them to treat me differently.

Children only know what you teach them.

Gutei raised his finger whenever he was asked a question about Zen. A boy attendant began to imitate him in this way. When anyone asked the boy what his master had preached about, the boy would raise his finger. Gutei heard about the boy's mischief. He seized him and cut off his finger. The boy cried and ran away. Gutei called and stopped him. When the boy turned his head to Gutei, Gutei raised up his own finger. In that instant the boy was enlightened.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography.

It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.

they shall not teach, each one his fellow citizen and kinsman, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know me, from least to greatest. 12For I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sins no more.

L'éducation ne se borne pas à l'enfance et à l'adolescence. L'enseignement ne se limite pas à l'école. Toute la vie, notre milieu est notre éducation, et un éducateur à la fois sévère et dangereux. Learning transcends childhood and adolescence just as teaching transcends the classroom. Our environment is the most strict and dangerous educator we will ever have.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?