Quotes About Teaching

I just thought that was the most noble contribution you could make to human kind, was to be a teacher.

You teach what you know... but impart who you are.

We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom

Never stop learning, and always be ready to teach yourself things you don't know. The only things you will remember are things you care about.

Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.

Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always choose to learn from others.

Teachable spirit makes you crave for more wisdom and knowledge.

The priest must teach the people, the fear of God.

Teach the child, not just the curriculum.

I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life.

Homeschooling is not head-to-head, it's heart-to-heart.

It isn't my teaching credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It is my God who qualifies me.

The primary focus of homeschooling should be on cultivating hearts for the Lord.

Christ is the core of my child's curriculum.

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

2 Timothy 3:16 ALL Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.

People who smile tend to manage, teach and sell more effectively, and to raise happier children. There's far more information in a smile than a frown. That's why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.

The situations and people in our life that cause us the most trouble are also our greatest teachers.

If you truly want students to take an interest in American history, then stop lying to them.

When students are not asked to assess, but only to remember, they do not learn how to assess or how to think for themselves.

No doctrines will be unimportant, though some will lie closer to our bosom than others. But doctrine--doctrine--doctrine--is that which faith desires. It is lamentable that the Christianity of our day desires it not.

there are many people who frequently hear the words of Christ but have little desire to follow them and so do not have the mind of Christ.

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

In an astonishingly short time I reached the point where the language taught itself—where I learned to speak merely by speaking. This point is the place which students taught foreign languages in our schools and colleges find great difficulty in reaching. I think the main trouble is that they learn too much of a language at a time. A French child with a vocabulary of two hundred words can express more spoken ideas than a student of French can with a knowledge of two thousand.