Quotes about Teaching
To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.
- Victor Hugo
Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable
- Victor Hugo
Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providing free public education; and society will answer for the obscurity it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sin will be committed. The guilty party is not he who has sinned but he who created the darkness in the first place.
- Victor Hugo
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing instruction for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
- Victor Hugo
Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct.
- Brian Tracy
If we teach only the findings and products of science — no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be — without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?
- Carl Sagan
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.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
When Jesus said, I am the way, He meant that to have a true relationship with God, you must practice His way.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Jon Gruden taught me the foundation of what I know about this game. Took me under his arm, taught me to see it from a big-picture perspective.
- Sean McVay
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is Himself the way
- Karl Barth
Are you saved?" asks the fundamentalist. "I am redeemed," answers the Catholic, "and like the apostle Paul I am working out my salvation in fear and trembling, with hopeful confidence—but not with a false assurance—and I do all this as the Church has taught, unchanged, from the time of Christ.
- Karl Keating
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen