Quotes About Teaching

Psittacus vbs alirum nmina discam: Hoc didic per m dcere, "Caesar, hav!

Richard A. LaFleur

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

As Zabelka remarked, the just war theory is "something that Christ never taught or even hinted at."6

where the Torah restricts retaliation, Jesus forbids it altogether.

This would mean, practically speaking, that Christians would have to relinquish positions of power and influence insofar as the exercise of such positions becomes incompatible with the teaching and example of Jesus.

Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.

We teach best what we most need to learn.

Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land (271).

All that are upright are not equally fitted for the work, and many that are learned, judicious, and more able to teach the riper sort, are yet less able to condescend to the ignorant, and so convincingly and fervently to rouse up the secure, as some that are below them in other qualifications; and many that are able in both respects, have a barren people; and the ablest have found by experience that God hath sometimes blessed the labours of a stranger to that which their own hath not done.

Convince them what a contradiction it is to be a Christian and yet to refuse to learn. For what is a Christian but a disciple of Christ, and how can he be his disciple if he refuses to be taught by him? He who refuses to be taught by his ministers refuses to be taught by Christ. He will not come down from heaven again to teach them by his own mouth, but he has appointed his ministers to keep school and to teach those under him.

If only preaching be necessary, let us have none but preachers. What needs there, then, such a stir about government? But if discipline (in its place) be necessary too, what is it but enmity to men's salvation to exclude it?

Truth loves the light and is most beautiful when it is most naked. If you would not teach men, why are you in the pulpit? If you would teach men, why do you not speak so as to be understood?

I believe that listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, entrepreneur or, well, just about anyone who has a pulse.

Give your child a consequence that is meaningful to him or her.

Being an unspoiling parent is a lot of work. But it is a small price to pay for an unspoiled child.

Practice telling your child your expectations and wishes in statements that declare rather than ask.

Stop treating your child as royalty whose every want must be met. Teach your child to turn demands into polite requests.

Model the gratitude you want your children to show.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

It is not sufficient for fathers to send their children to church, Sunday school, Christian camp, or private Christian school. You must read the Bible to your children yourself. Obviously, our children must see some correspondence between the Bible and our lives. But even as we work out our own Christian growth, we must read God's Word to and with our children.

But we should always emphasize the actual teaching of the Bible in our witness, because it is the Word of God that brings people to faith. Peter

Arthur W. Pink rightly warns: "The fact that a preacher has graduated with honors from some theological center is no proof that he is a man taught of the Holy Spirit. No dependence can be placed on human learning."' The