Quotes about Teaching

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both

Now and then a division-agent was really obliged to shoot a hostler through the head to teach him some simple matter that he could have taught him with a club if his circumstances and surroundings had been different. But they were snappy, able men, those division-agents, and when they tried to teach a subordinate anything, that subordinate generally got it through his head.

Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

No child under the age of fifteen should receive instruction in subjects which may possibly be the vehicle of serious error, such as philosophy, religion, or any other branch of knowledge where it is necessary to take large views; because wrong notions imbibed early can seldom be rooted out, and of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to arrive at maturity.

Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it. For others, it is to share and spread also those words that are meaningful to us. But primarily for us all, it is necessary to teach by living and speaking those truths which we believe and know beyond understanding. Because in this way alone we can survive, by taking part in a process of life that is creative and continuing, that is growth.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. So go crazy with the rules?the time your child spends trying to figure them out is time he won't be stapling firecrackers to the neighbor's dog.

We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And . I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And , but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible at that time [Childhood].

Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.