One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it — teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades...

A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, ‘What wondrous thing shall I witness today?

Teach men how to fish, but also teach them how to preserve fish.

The more you know the more you need to learn.

Education — whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even oneself — consists in creating motives. To show what is beneficial, what is obligatory, what is good — that...

Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school.

Real mystery – the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book – was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent...

The school takes its coloring from yourown attitude,

Good teaching gains its authority from having consistent and repeated support from multiple scriptural sources, and it builds a firm base for our unity and our confidence in Christ.

If you treat every question like you’ve never heard it before, your students feel like you respect them and everyone learns a lot more. Including the teacher.

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

Your perspectives change your realities.

The single problem plaguing all students in all schools everywhere is the crisis of disconnection. Meaningful Student Involvement happens when the roles of students are actively re-aligned from being the passive recipients of schools to...

When someone is attacking you, they are coming to you for advice.

In a world of sleepwalkers an awakened mind is a teacher and a catalyst for new awakenings, whether they want to be or not.

It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.

There are two types of teachers. The ones who teach you to use the text to find answers, and the ones who teach you to use the text to find another whole world of answers.

The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, “How am I doing?” and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one’s own accord – it feels great – but...

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.1010 One has only to spend a term trying to teach college literature to realize...

Teaching is the best way to learn.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.

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When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.

That’s what education should be,” I said, “the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn’t be the art of implanting sight in the organ,...

In a 1968 study of daily life in classrooms, Philip W. Jackson wrote that students spend as much as 50 percent of their time waiting for something to happen. They wait for teachers to pass...

I’d see the arrow. I’d think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers – because it lives with those who know how to speak.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found in these forms, because teaching is. We teach not only by our words...

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Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you — you will blow right by their grip; you will effortlessly flow to safety.

The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.

There is no such thing as perfection and it is okay for you to have negative thoughts.

Governments are the deadliest terrorist organizations that have ever existed if body count means anything.

As long as you are waiting for something to make you happy — happiness will never come.

Change isn’t always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.

If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need...

As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging...

I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble.

TeachingOne hour’s teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

Before I’ll take my clone on as a pupil in the craft of writing, he must prove his worthiness. He must write 100 thoughts down, of which 10 might be interesting. If he’s done that,...

Teachers, you don’t teach a subject, you teach a child.

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

We’re doing less teaching and more complex stuff this year.

MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh…