Teaching Quotes

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.

If you have no interest in actually committing yourself to an actual group of gospel-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, you might question whether you belong to the body of Christ at all!

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it.

Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.

The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

We're teaching our children how to live. We need to start teaching them how to die.

We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.

When you watch Canadian kids [Box Lacrosse Players] score, when you see their skill level around the cage, you wonder to yourself, 'Jeez, are we teaching kids [in the U.S.] the wrong things?

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.

If a pastor focuses only on teaching, he grows members with big ears and rears but tiny hands and hearts.Service is MODELED not taught.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.