Quotes about Teaching

have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest—I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

I think a lot about teaching my kids to work hard.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.

Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.