Quotes about Teaching

You might have heard the old saying "Give someone a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach someone to fish, and you feed him for the rest of his life." The same holds true for life itself. If you give someone an answer, a rule, a principle, you help him solve one problem. But if you teach him to walk with God, well then, you've helped him solve the rest of his life. You've helped him tap into an inexhaustible

To see you in love is far more powerful than any other lesson. A picture is worth a thousand words. It's important that your sons see your physical affection, to see you kiss, cuddle on the couch, hold hands in public. Oh, sure—they'll say they're "grossed out," tell you to "get a room." But they are watching and learning.

And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.

We must determine whether on the one hand Christianity is still to represent to us a definite teaching from above, or whether on the other its utterances have been from time to time so strangely at variance, that we are necessarily thrown back on our own judgment individually to determine, what the revelation of God is, or rather if in fact there is, or has been, any revelation at all.

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.

I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.

Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.