Teaching Quotes

Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.

Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.

The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.

Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

I know what the teaching is, but to realize the teaching in a life experience, the sh*t really is an opportunity to find out who we truly are. To really learn and to awaken to our potential.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

We must consider teaching the Egyptian revolution in schools.

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.

It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.

Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to no central vital Christian teaching whatsoever.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.