Teaching Quotes - Page 32

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

Little things affect little minds.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure.

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

The goal of gospel teaching... is not to 'pour information' into the minds of class members... The aim is to inspire the individual to think about, feel about, and then do something about living gospel principles.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

When one teaches, two learn.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

Each day I take time out to study the Bible, no matter where I am. The teachings of the Bible have added a new dimension to my life. It, somehow, makes me whole.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.