Teaching Quotes

Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

...but what has been said once can always be repeated.

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world- and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.

It goes like this: teaching is touching life

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.

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.

It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.