Quotes on Teaching

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.

All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.

Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by observation. So he reasons, compares facts, puts questions to them, and by the answers which he extracts, tests one by another. This sort of control, by means of reasoning and facts, is what constitutes experiment, properly speaking; and it is the only process that we have for teaching ourselves about the nature of things outside us.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

So I am not teaching you to be good, I am not teaching you to be bad; I am teaching you only to be whole. To be whole is to be healthy and to be healthy is to be holy.

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.

It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion.

The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach. Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach.

Humankind can't stand too much reality.

We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the Muslims - and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam - that caused our present decay.