Quotes About Teaching

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.

There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is imparting any knowledge.

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.

The world can teach leadership skills but only Jesus can teach you a leaders heart.

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.