What To Teach Quotes

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.

There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible.

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test , and teach.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.

It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

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

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.

The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.