Teaching Quotes

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.

I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. ‘Disco Pigs’ was my first professional acting experience.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.