Quotes about Teaching

Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,

Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.

Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

A servant cannot be corrected by words alone; though he understands, he will not respond.

These are the words of King Lemuel—the burden that his mother taught him:

Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.

The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.

The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.

I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.