2,279 Quotes About Teaching

We are all just humble students of the world.

Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

Whenever pastors assume people in their congregation know certain things, they miss opportunities to teach. If a pastor makes assumptions year after year, then a whole generation has never heard [that truth] for the first time. If we assume too much, we communicate too little.

The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours.

We understand why it is better to teach a starving man to fish, but a repertoire course is worse than handing a a fish to a starving man. Our students are not starving; if anything, they are drowning in a sea of information. So a survey course is more like handing a giant box of chocolates to a fat, rich man.

The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn.

Someone's forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours.

Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.