Teaching Quotes - Page 27

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.

Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these outstanding personalities. The fundamental ideas of Gestalt theory are the foundation of all our investigations in the field of the will, of affection, and of the personality.

It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source. For example, Islam, the predominant religion in the Middle East, accepts as an integral part of its religious teachings both the Old and the New Testaments. If this commonality of moral traditions among the world's major religions does not say something about the universality of religion, it does say something about the universality of mankind.

Wherever the Bible has been consistently applied, it has dramatically changed the civilization and culture of those who have accepted its teaching. No other book has ever so dramatically changed the individual lives and society in general.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.

Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures] that should ever lead anyone to become intolerant. Our goal as Buddhists is to learn to accept all kinds of people and to help all kinds of people discover the wisdom of the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

If you receive empowerment, it's about bodhicitta. If you receive teachings, it's about bodhicitta. If you practice teachings, it's about bodhicitta. Everything comes down to bodhicitta. The essence of practice is about bodhicitta. When you sit down to do your practice, what you practice is bodhicitta.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

Teaching is a performance art.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.

When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends.

The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment – one thought or emotion after another like the surface of the ocean in turmoil, without any recognition of mind essence. This confusion is continuous, without almost any break, life after life.

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.