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Quotes About Teaching

The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated with the Word of God.
~ Elizabeth George
The key is putting into practice what God has taught you through His Word.
~ Elizabeth George
A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK beacuse he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that- he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away...meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny." - Wayan
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Students told me he was the most extraordinary man they'd ever encountered. He had seemed not quite of this world, they said. He seemed to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel, and he encouraged them to do the same. He didn't so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness. He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He didn't so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He had seemed not quite of this world, they said. He seemed to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel, and he encouraged them to do the same. He didn't so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn gladness. He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world. Most of all, though, he asked his students to be brave.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The word Guru is composed of two Sanskrit syllables. The first means "darkness," the second means "light." Out of the darkness and into the light.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He tells me that there are many ways to find God but most are too complicated for Westerners, so he will teach me an easy meditation. Which goes, essentially, like this: sit in silence and smile. I love it. He's laughing even as he's teaching it to me. Sit and smile. Perfect.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Over the course of the summer, he taught the children to eat foods they had never known, to sharpen and use knives, to carve their own spoons, to make knots and play Indian games and- every time they cut a branch off a living tree- to cut away a small lock of their own hair, to leave as an offering of thanks.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
La palabra gurú se compone de dos sílabas sánscritas. La primera significa «oscuridad»; la segunda significa «luz». Es decir, el paso de la oscuridad a la luz.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The field of honor is a painful field," Olive went on at last, as though Peg had not spoken. "That's what my father taught me when I was young. He taught me that the field of honor is not a place where children can play. Children don't have any honor, you
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I am grateful to my mother, Carole Gilbert, for teaching me how to work my ass off and how to be resilient in the face of life's difficulties.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
you can't teach a dog not to bark, for 'tis God's will that they do
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
as if wherever he taught was a dining room instead of a classroom, and we were all eating at his table.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
If one could only get hold of the children! I sighed, as I went up the steps into the schoolhouse; catch them young, and put them in a garden, with no older people of their own class for ever teaching them by example what is ugly, and unworthy, and gross.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
For teaching to be effective, you must be heard, and many children with autism hear better with a picture.
~ Ellen Notbohm
Rue, sage, rosemary, gilvers, gromwell, ginger, mint, thyme, columbine, herb of grace, savoury, mustard, every manner of herb grew here, fennel, tansy, basil and dill, parsley, chervil and marjoram. He had taught the uses even of the unfamiliar
~ Ellis Peters
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.
~ Alfred Kazin
Impara tutto ciò che ti è possibile dagli errori degli altri. Non avrai tempo a sufficienza per farli tutti.
~ Alfred Sheinwold
Both professor and student share in the pursuit of excellence and perfection.
~ al-Hadi, Ali
Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Maeniel felt this was why all the great sages never wrote anything down. In the final analysis, scriptures are futile things, dependent as they are on the intentions of the interpreter. All too often too literal a mind can lead human students into strange follies. Sometimes it is better to allow the searchers to try to plumb the depths of the great mystery on their own and accept that not every one of those taking the road will see the same end.
~ Alice Borchardt