Quotes About Teaching

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path - he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it to him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.

It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Successful teaching rests both on a genuine and selfless concern for students and on the ability to convey to them a love of history.

All through the ages schoolmasters seem to have had the delusion that they could order society as readily as they could a classroom.

Now and then I am inclined to think that the passion to teach, which is far more powerful and primitive than the passion to learn, is a a factor in the rise of mass movements. For what do we see in the Communist world? Half of the globe has been turned into a vast schoolroom with a thousand million pupils at the mercy of a band of maniacal schoolmasters.

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.

By providing the best teaching resources, educators are able to provide the kind of teaching experience upon which children thrive. Our years of experience enable us to produce the best textbooks, using industry-standard formats and images, making the books easy to read and understand.

We teach history to instill in new generations the values of patriotism, citizenship, and love of country, but sometimes we must also remember that we teach history so that we can liberate ourselves from the past.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Beginning of the teaching for life,The instructions for well-being…Knowing how to answer one who speaks,To reply to one who sends a message.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

La Fontaine avait illustré, dans La Cigale et la Fourmi, ce qui était la morale de son

Having read all of whitie's books, I wanted to be an authority on them. Having been taught that art was "what white men do," I almost became one, to have a go at it.

Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.

None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom.

The Alexandrian Mystics taught that Jesus' divinity with a capital D and his humanity with a lower case h are always in dynamic tension and can never be separated.

Let the little ones come to me and forbid them not," he told me, repeating Jesus' words, "because, boy, the kingdom of heaven is filled with little people, and that doesn't mean in size. That means people who are disenfranchised and know that they need God—that's who teaches us.

know that when I was teaching, the families of immigrants were among my hardest working and often best behaved. I know that the respect I accorded them was returned to me tenfold.

You still taking dance classes?" "No, Aiden. Mama said it's like teaching a cow to sing the blues. No one wants to see it, no one wants to hear it, and it's embarrassing to the cow.

God love his mother. He really had learned from the very fuckin' best.

Any interaction is training. Translation: Every time you have any kind of contact with an animal—when you leave food on the floor, talk to it, pass its enclosure—you are teaching it something whether you mean to or not.