Quotes about Teaching
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
- Ellen White
I think a lot about teaching my kids to work hard.
- Jennifer Lopez
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
- Saint Francis Xavier
Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson
I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
- Anne Hutchinson
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
- Origen
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
- Bill Gates
It's easy to forgive people who have never done anything to make us angry. People who do make us angry, however, are our most important teachers. They indicate the limits to our capacity for forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson