Teaching Quotes

The problem with the prosperity gospel is that it makes prosperity the Gospel. God's word is flawless, however if your interpretation of the word is wrong, your application will be wrong also.

~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

~ Haruki Murakami

She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old lady. Reciting, her voice took on resonance and firmness, it rang with the old fervor, with ferocity even. She was teaching me one more, almost her last, lesson: emotions do not grow old. I knew that I would feel as she did, and I do.

~ Eudora Welty

[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr][Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of responsibility for science, community, and, ultimately, humankind in general, are common traits of the Jewish intellectual. So too is a well-fortified atheism. Bohr ended with no religious belief and a dislike of all religions that claimed to base their teachings on revelations.

~ Finn Aaserud

You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours on them.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.

~ Ujas Soni

...we spend a lot of time defining behavior by the negative that was inappropriate. These commands are vague and inefficient...Telling students what to do in a way that is specific, concrete, sequential and observable refocuses us on teaching.

~ Doug Lemov

Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

~ Steve Stockman

The teachers of my life saved my life and sent me out prepared for whatever life I was meant to lead. Like everyone else, I had some bad ones and mediocre ones, but I never had one that I thought was holding me back because of idleness or thoughtlessness. They spent their lives with the likes of me and I felt safe during the time they spent with me. The best of them made me want to be just like them. I wanted young kids to look at me the way I looked at the teachers who loved me. Loving them was not difficult for a boy like me. They lit a path for me, and one that I followed with joy.

~ Pat Conroy

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

~ William Kristol

We are all each other's teachers.

~ Mommy Moo Moo

I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to teach their children. We should help parents understand the overriding importance of incidental teaching in the context of warm, consistent companionship. Such caring is usually the greatest teaching, especially if caring means sharing in the activites of the home.

~ Raymond S. Moore

If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to be inadequate or erroneous. But if they are held without an awareness of abstracting-if our mental maps are believed to be the territory-they are prejudices. As teachers or parents, we cannot help passing on to the young a certain amount of misinformation and error, however hard we may try not to. But if we teach them to be habitually conscious of the process of abstraction, we give them the means by which to free themselves from whatever erroneous notions we may have inadvertently taught them.

~ S.i. Hayakawa

I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To help our youth abide by the principles involved in temple marriage, we must help them to understand that temple marriage is more than just a place where the ceremony occurs; it is a whole orientation to life and marriage and home. It is a culmination of building attitudes toward the Church, chastity, and about our personal relationship with God--and many other things. Thus, simply preaching temple marriage is not enough. Our family home evenings, seminaries, institutes, and auxiliaries must build toward this goal, not by exhortation alone but by showing that the beliefs and attitudes involved in temple marriage are those which can bring the kind of life here and in eternity that most humans really want for themselves (The Teachings of Harold B. Lee, p. 244).

~ Harold B. Lee

In an age of sophistic over-complexity, simplicity can be useful.

~ William Krystol

Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.

~ Asa Don Brown

It is our job as parents, to instill principles and values in our children. So that when they depart from you, those principles and values won’t depart from them. Mallory Bullard, a street soldier from the old school.

~ Drexel Deal

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his downward voyage, he was getting into a better temper every minute.

~ Thomas Hughes

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

~ Pat Conroy

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

~ Jim Abbott

People have been fighting and dying over religion for thousands of years. I could understand that fear. It creeps up on you a bit more when you’re alone in a foreign land. You certainly worry about it more when you walk the same streets as violent people that harbor a clear hatred of your beliefs and values. The reality is some Muslims in the world would kill me for being Christian, just as some Christians in the world would kill Maya, Gita, Farid and Ridwan for being Muslim. Nowadays news outlets and social media have reified that fear. It keeps some people focused and aware. It paralyzes others. It blinds some of us. That’s what happened to me. It’s why I felt the whole world shake. Twice.

~ Tucker Elliot

You can't make me be nice.You can't make me be good.You can't make me be

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When you're taught by great people whose milestone achievements has been noted, you could only expect greatness.

~ Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let your existence be enough for a moment.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The truth is that we are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a miracle, and later we are lost amidst the multitude of teachings and dogmas. After identifying with our beliefs and convinctions we forget who we really are, who the person born in us into the world in order to experience existence and get acquainted with all the teachings.

~ Frank Wanderer

If nobody teaches us the words, the thoughts, we stay ignorant. If nobody shows a little child, two, three years old, how to look for the way, the signs of the path, the landmarks, then it gets lost in the mountain, doesn't it? And dies in the night, in the cold.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America.

~ Pat Conroy

May you receive the wisdom of your wounds and may you live your life even larger than your pain.

~ Bryant Mcgill

In the marathon of life negativity is never as light-footed as a dreamer's sprint.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I need to be alone. After a full day of talking, smiling, listening, showing, nodding, translating, I want to be alone. I want simply to come home, close the door, and sit in silence, gathering up the bits of myself that have come loose. I want to think, or not think. I want to rest.

~ Jamie Zeppa

You don't always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Aside from the straightforwardly visible curriculum, there is the hidden curriculum. This exists in the wider set of beliefs and values pupils acquire because of the way that a school is run and its teaching organized. It is about the behaviour of the teachers, the textbooks chosen, the school rules.

~ Gary Thomas

You already have and are, your value is intrinsic.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.

~ Anonymous

For rigorous teachers seized my youth,And purged its faith, and trimmed its fire,Showed me the high, white star of Truth,There bade me gaze, and there aspire.Even now their whispers pierce the gloom'What dost thou in this living tomb?

~ Matthew Arnold