Top 1200 Teaching Children Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.

My mother, who is a Carnatic musician, started a school for children when I was around three, and I grew up listening to her teaching students.

My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship. My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation.

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

I see apostasy in many ways occurring in Evangelical churches that really aren't teaching the truth of God's word. I do believe that some churches have become entertainment centers and a teaching a type of prosperity Gospel rather than teaching God's word.

The weekend is all about teaching the children life skills and getting them out in all weathers.

Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

We've done a terrible job of hiring, supporting, and retaining the people tasked with the difficult responsibility of teaching our children.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

My husband and I are big givers to charity, and we are teaching our son Barron all about giving his old toys away to children who might not have any.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

I am more interested in teaching my children empathy than subscribing to our 'me' culture and obsessing about 'how do I feel' all the time.

I've done a bit of teaching, but I gave it up - I felt uneasy teaching illustration to people who hadn't yet learned to draw.

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific cooperation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.

I'm raising three children. I'm teaching my kids what it means, the Golden Rule, to treat people like you want to be treated.

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives.

It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

The traditional paradigm of parenting has been very hierarchical, the parent knows best and very top down. Conscious parenting topples [this paradigm] on its head and creates this mutuality, this circularity where both parent and child serve each other and where in fact, perhaps, the child could be even more of a guru for the parent .... teaching the parent how the parent needs to grow, teaching the parent how to enter the present moment like only children know how to do.

Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.

Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!

It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and Platoís heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.

I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.

Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence of training is causing another to do. Teaching gives knowledge. Training gives skill. Teaching fills the mind. Training shapes the habits. Teaching brings to the child that which he did not have before. Training enables a child to make use of that which is already his possession.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.

Sometimes the most powerful way to teach our children to understand a doctrine is to teach in the context of what they are experiencing right at that moment. These moments are spontaneous and unplanned and happen in the normal flow of family life. They come and go quickly, so we need to be alert and recognize a teaching moment when our children come to us with a question or a worry.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.

Everyday classroom teaching is not what children will remember, but how you made a difference in their lives.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given