Quotes about Teaching
Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.
- Sheila Walsh
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
- Samuel Johnson
Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.
- Jim Rohn
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.
- Confucius
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Teaching is of more importance than urging.
- Martin Luther
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
- Martin Luther
Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.
- Sonia Sotomayor
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.
- NT Wright
The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.
- Henri Nouwen
We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.
- Herman Melville