Teaching Quotes

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don’t because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps

The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, ‘You know what? Let’s just grab lunch.’

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.

Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.