2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.

Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching them to others? Could we defend the Constitution? Can we recognize when a law is constitutionally unsound? Do we know what the prophets have said about the Constitution and the threats to it?

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be

It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire-learned from the teachings of antiquity-that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.