Quotes about Teaching

I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

My father taught only math.

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

I would far rather convey grace than explain it.

Beware of the tendency to preach about Christianity, and try to preach Christ.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.) And so the boy

The boy answers, Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt. Indra says, I ask. Teach. (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

there is a fourth function of myth, and this is the one that I think everyone must try today to relate to—and that is the pedagogical function, of how to live a human lifetime under any circumstances. Myths can teach you that.

Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.