Quotes on Teaching

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see all religious teaching built upon the solid rock of truth and not upon the sand of imagination. At the same time, our grand object is not the revision of opinions, but the regeneration of natures. We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity.

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.