Teaching Quotes - Page 33

• It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Education, Children, Intelligent

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• Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Children, Illustration, Capacity

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• Teach by teaching, not by correcting

  Maria Montessori

  Teach, Correcting

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• Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Men, Lessons

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.110, Algonquin Books

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• Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Men, England

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.229

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• Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Earth, Virtue

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• I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

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• Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

  John Dewey

  May, Commodity, Selling

  John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.140, SIU Press

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• Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

  May Sarton

  Needs, Way, Honest

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

  Helen Keller

  Reading, Book, Skills

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• Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Gains, Erring

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good-natured man. She stoops to conquer; or, the Mistakes of a night. An oratorio. Prefaces. [Criticisms”, p.67

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• I don't know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I'd like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Pneumonia, Ideas, Want

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• For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

  Edmund Burke

  Barren, Investigation, Method

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.3

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• Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Ideas, Mind

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2071, Delphi Classics

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• In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.

  James T. Farrell

  Growing Up, Father, Book

  JAMES T. FARRELL (1938). “STUDS LONIGAN”

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• Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

  Agnes Repplier

  Learning, Busy

  Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

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• Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Sky, Talking

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.

  Simone Weil

  Should Have, Training, Attention

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.120, Psychology Press

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• Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Friendship, Moving, Linear

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• The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912). “A Montessori Mother”

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• Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.

  Izumi Shikibu

  Heart, Voice, Meditation

  Izumi Shikibu, “Although I Try”

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• Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Thinking, Good Man

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.6

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• The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

  Horace Mann

  Training, Example, Honest

  Horace Mann (1857). “Demands of the Age on Colleges”, p.46

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• Teaching is performance art.

  Kate Clinton

  Art, Performances, Performance Art

  Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.35, Bywater Books

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• Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Spiritual, Symbols, Spiritual Teaching

  Mary Baker Eddy (1958). “The Christian Science Journal”

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