Teach Quotes

A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Stairs are your teacher; they teach you to be stronger. Love your teacher and every time life puts some stairs before you, accept them as a present!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

~ Harry Edwards

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

~ Bertrand Russell

Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first.  Secondly, it is to teach them.  Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

We need to teach our kids to be tough: the system may be synthesized to protect them from bullies, but who will protect them against a system gone wrong?

~ Charbel Tadros

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In my meditations, I find that nothing in life counts more than the happiness we can give others, the good that we can do. This is what we must teach our children, to think of others more than they think of themselves, for it is in this way they will find the most noble satisfaction of all. ~ Maurice Drouhin writing to his wife from prison in 1941

~ Don Kladstrup

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

~ Robin Hobb

Rear your children in light and truth. Teach them to pray while they are young. Read to them from the scriptures even though they may not understand all that you read. Teach them to pay their tithes and offerings on the first money they ever receive. Let this practice become a habit in their lives. Teach your sons to honor womanhood. Teach your daughters to walk in virtue. Accept responsibility in the Church, and trust in the Lord to make you equal to any call you may receive. Your example will set a pattern for your children. Reach out in love to those in distress and need.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Teach them [your children] in such a way that they could not misunderstand the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There is no better time than now to rededicate yourself to the principles taught by Jesus, and to teach your children about Him too!

~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

A godly mother loves God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength, and teaches her children to do the same.

~ Elizabeth George

Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however, have grown up hearing the word ‘no’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming so often, they create their own little world, a world with lots of limitations. What then do most adults teach to their children? ‘No’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming.’ So, what can you learn from a child today…?

~ James A. Murphy

A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.

~ K. Lamb

Teach your children that a person is more valuable than any treasure found on this earth, teach them to love, teach them to sing, and dance, teach them to be courageous, and tell them they will be victorious on anything they put their heart and mind to, teach them honesty, and to never give up hope.

~ Martin Suarez

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science. Man knows at last that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe, whence which he has emerged by chance. His duty, like his fate, is written nowhere.

~ Jacques Monod

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Trials are used by God to teach you dependence on His grace rather than on your strength.

~ Jim George

Whatever problems we encountered, we put there. If we trace the line back, every struggle derived from some decision we made. It is not chance, it is how we teach ourselves.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students?

~ Paul Lockhart

Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.

~ K. Lamb

Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books.

~ K. Lamb

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.

~ Stefanos Livos

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.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

When you don’t learn the best, you will teach the worst.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

New learning never hurt anybody.

~ Tamora Pierce

A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals, knowing that much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. Animals are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

~ Suzy Kassem

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

~ Zhuangzi

Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can’t wear her smiling face to the platform. You’ve got to put that smile on your own face.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

~ John Lubbock

There is someone out there who needs just a line or a sentence of your life testimony to believe he or she can also make it. Keeping your testimony away from them is more of suspending their accomplishments till further notice! Come on! Let's learn from you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

~ Mike Schmoker

Instead it is the Church hierarchy that is rather teaching congregation to be afraid of darkness, instead of teaching them to go with light to overcome darkness.

~ Sunday Adelaja

For a couple of days he was nice and I was on cloud number 9,damn they don’t teach how to come down from there instead leave us to gravity.

~ Pushpa Rana

You can't teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination

~ K. Lamb

Today's make believe is tomorrow's creativity.

~ K. Lamb

Don't harness a child's imagination, encourage it so it knows no bounds!

~ K. Lamb