Quotes About Teaching

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

Among the many benefits of Socratic Method is that it causes students to reach their own insights and express them in their own words.

what is expressed by the learner is a hundred times more productive learning than what is expressed to the learner

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches you nothing but the shape of the spoon .

the message or the word regarding His way is the gospel.

No other New Testament writer presents this matter in the way Paul does. This indicates that Paul had a great deal to teach other believers. But although Paul knew more and had more, he was not proud.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

Every culture I've ever been subjected to appears to be frightened," he explains. "I've been working as a psychotherapist for 20 years, and if I could boil down every problem that ever walked through any office that I've occupied—and this includes when I've been alone in the office—every human being suffers from two things in varying degrees of intensity, two things that are taught to us. They're called self-doubt and fear.

bu wen bu rou wen zi, wen zi bu ruo jian zhi. jian zhi bu ruo zhi zi, zhi zi bu ruo xing zi. Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. But involve me, I will understand. XUN ZI (PHILOSOPHER, WARRING STATES PERIOD, 475–221 BC)

It wasn't that the girl failed to attract him, but he preferred casual sex with uninhibited women who had already wallowed in the mire at the bottom of society. There was no need for him to waste his energy teaching this girl about life.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say "we don't know".

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.

And it helped that he forgot what he'd taught me before, so I was free to repeat the same question until I

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

The decent docent doesn't doze;He teaches standing on his toes.His student dassn't doze and does,And that's what teaching is and was.

It is most useful," Geshe Wangpo told Sam, "to share one's knowledge with others. Otherwise, what is the point in having it?

Serena smiled. "The historical Buddha who lived two and a half thousand years ago, Shakyamuni Buddha, he was a man. But enlightenment is a state beyond being male or female

One of the last things Buddha said to his followers was that anyone who believed a word he had taught them was a fool—unless they had tested it against their own experience.

I have lived with several Zen masters—all of them cats. ECKHART TOLLE, AUTHOR OF THE POWER OF NOW

When will you stop trying to educate me, I wonder? Never I hope.