Quotes about Teaching

Model: Ezra committed himself first to study God's Word, then to practice it, then to communicate it to the rest of Israel.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

The measure of a great teacher isn't what he or she knows; it's what the students know.

As you work today, take someone with you so that he can learn from you.

People don't learn from people they don't value.

If others work for you, give your own time only to those who are willing to learn and grow.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

We lost my dad in 2009 to leukemia. He taught me everything I know, and I love him very much.

We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.

The strategy she recommends to her clients is simple: when giving a speech, position yourself as Yoda and your audience as Luke Skywalker

We do not live this life to build a monument to ourselves, but to pass our understanding of life on to those who come behind us so that their stories can be even more meaningful than ours.