Quotes About Teaching

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then

I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.

We are going home to many who cannot read. So Lord make us to be Bibles so that those who cannot read the Book can read it in us.

Show me your ways O Lord teach me your paths guide me in your truth and teach me for you are God my Savior and my hope is in you all day long.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest?

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

Perfect happiness for student and teacher will come with the abolition of examinations, which are stumbling blocks and rocks of offense in the pathway of the true student.

Mostly, I like to use my writing to fuck shit up. And I like to teach my writing students how to use some of the same queer rhetorical strategies in their writing. Witnessing them experience, for themselves, where the compulsion to fuck shit up comes from is exciting and, at times, transformative.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

When we teach tactics in the opposite order, that is, the mechanics ahead of the thinking, too often we produce, instead of soldiers, structured mechanics who find it difficult to think without rules. The art of war has no traffic with rules. Yet I have often seen students reject their best tactical ideas because they could not fit them into the format.

A Daniel, still say I; a second Daniel!I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

It follows, therefore, that the church's evangelism ought to be one in which all the counsel of God is made known to men. We need a recovery of belief in the converting and sanctifying power of the living Word of God in the teaching of the pulpit, and its ability to transform the lives of men and produce in them the lineaments and fruits of mature Christian character.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

A teacher must read. How can a teacher justify not reading? A teacher must love books. You people are making a tragic mistake in your school leadership by placing people who do not read into positions of authority. Cag the alien in "Them" William W. Johnstone

We are all accountable: Our fallen nature is no excuse. We are responsible: God is not to blame. We stand guilty and deserving judgment. Any other teaching dilutes and refutes the true significance of the cross of Christ.

Prophets of Nature, we to them will speakA lasting inspiration, sanctifiedBy reason, blest by faith: what we have loved,Others will love, and we will teach them how;Instruct them how the mind of man becomesA thousand times more beautiful than the earthOn which he dwells.

A light to guide, a rodTo check the erring, and reprove.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.