Quotes about Teaching

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

We know Jesus was God. But He was also a man-He got tired; He got hungry; He knew what it was to have crowds pressing around Him all the time; He knew what it was to have His privacy invaded. But He kept right on letting the crowds into His life. He kept on teaching, healing, confronting the powers of hell- and never a cross or impatient word.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

HUMILITY: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

If you get a chance to coach against one of your mentors, and a guy that taught you almost kind of the foundation of what you know about this game, I think it would be a fun, humbling opportunity.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.