I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing....

Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of time coaching students individually on their writing and thinking. Strangely enough, I still...

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

Everyone thinks it goes smoothly in everyone else’s house, and theirs is the only place that has problems. I’ll let you in on a secret about teaching: there is no place in the world where...

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make...

When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

…God is already out there in the world ahead of us. In our teaching, therefore, we must do more than merely help people learn how to be good church members. We are directors preparing people...

.if you’re looking into infinity of deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..

Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oceans and expanses of space.

Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow.

A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place.

If you want meaning in your life you must give your life meaning.

Let your existence be enough for a moment.

I am not a teacher in my heart,” she said. “I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it,...

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the most important thing about...

I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I...

Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can’t wear her smiling face to the platform. You’ve got to put that smile on your...

What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race, there is no simple answer to how to work with...

watch out for schools that promise your kids will “experience success.” I’m teaching Plato’s Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.

I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.

Before I started (college), that’s the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject…his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire...

The word “education” comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s...

If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission.

I want students to engage the way a clutch on a car gets engaged: an engine can be running, making appropriate noises, burning fuel and creating exhaust fumes, but unless the clutch is engaged, nothing...

You can’t make me be nice.You can’t make me be good.You can’t make me believe.But your example, your kindness, your patience and love will affect me perhaps enough that eventually I may choose to do...

The first ring glowed in the distance, lit up by consumerism that was brought to Jakarta courtesy of western cultures and Christian nations, and it influenced impoverished Muslims in the third ring, who wore Manchester...

the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again)...

To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.

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The old saying that, “you are what you eat” extends beyond the body, and includes experiences.

People can only have power over you if you are seeking to have power over others.

Sometimes you have to get away from what you know to discover what you don’t know.

Life is a practice. When you ‘fail,’ you can immediately begin practicing again.

You don’t always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.

We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.

Consider now the primal scene of education in the modern elementary school. Let us assume that a teacher wishes to inform a class of some 20 pupils about the structure of atoms, and that she...

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Mengajar adalah semacam pertunjukan yang harus menarik.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being “with it,” yet school makes them identify their personal,...

Having someone teaching our infielders who has learned from someone as respected as Perry Hill, that means a lot.

… because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, “You feel what, Tiny?”.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways....

The lesson we are teaching citizens is somehow we don’t have to listen to the courts. This is disrespectful to Judge Hamilton, the judicial system and the Bill of Rights.

They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.