quotes tagged with 'teacher' 
"We have raised the bar," says Elder Ballard. "But that doesn't raise it just for the youth. That raises it for the parents, who have the primary responsibility for teaching their children principles. That raises it for the leaders. That raises it for the teachers. We've all got to take a step up in a world that is unraveling as fast as this one is.
Women as 'nurturers and teachers'
Granddaughters, do not be deceived in your quest to find happiness and an identity of your own. Entreating voices may tell you that what you have experienced in your own homes—that which you have seen your mothers and grandmothers do—is old-fashioned, unchallenging, boring, and drudgery. It may be old-fashioned and perhaps routine; at times it is drudgery. But your mothers and grandmothers have sung a song that expresses the highest love and the noblest of womanly feelings. They have been nurturers and teachers.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself.
Author: Louis D. Brandeis, Source: "Olmstead v. United States", 277 U.S. 438, 485 (1928)Saved by cboyack in government example law leader teacher model 1 year ago[save this] [permalink]Parents, stay close to your children; you cannot delegate your responsibility to the educators no matter how competent they may be. Parents have a duty to train their children, to talk over their problems with them, to discuss what they are learning at school. And it is neither wise nor safe... to leave the determination of our educational system and policies exclusively to the professional educators.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: Conference Report, October 1964Saved by cboyack in education responsibility children learning school teacher parents 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]"I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God."
Author: Karl G. Maeser, Source: "A Vision of Visiting Teaching" by Spencer W. Kimball, Ensign, June 1978Saved by Brookewheat in education teacher 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]Nearly a century ago a French sociologist wrote that every institution's unstated first goal is to survive and grow, not to undertake the mission it has nominally staked out for itself. Thus the first goal of a government postal service is not to delivery the mail; it is to provide protection for its employees and perhaps a modest status ladder for the more ambitious ones. The first goal of a permanent military organization is not to defend national security but to secure, in perpetuity, a fraction of the national wealth to distribute to its personnel.
It was this philistine potential — that teaching the young for pay would inevitably expand into an institute for the protection of teachers, not students — that made Socrates condemn the Sophists so strongly long ago in ancient Greece.
Author: John Taylor Gatto, Source: Dumbing Us Down, pp. 58-9Saved by cboyack in government goal school teacher growth institution student 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Author: William Arthur Ward, Source: UnknownSaved by cboyack in teacher 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Source: UnknownSaved by cboyack in potential inspire teacher 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children.
Author: David O. McKay, Source: LDS General Conference, October 1916Saved by cboyack in teacher 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]In teaching there are three ever-present factors: first, what the teacher is; secondly, what the teacher says; and thirdly, what the teacher does. The least important of these is what the teacher says; the other two are most vital in child training. It is worse folly for a teacher to attempt to teach something which he himself does not believe. There is a sixth sense in most of us, and particularly in children and youth, which instinctively detects the inconsistency between pretension as expressed in words and reality as it exists in thought and feeling. A dishonest teacher cannot effectively teach honesty, nor an athiest teach belief in God, nor an immoral one teach purity of life. True teaching springs from the heart, not from vocal chords.
Author: David O. McKay, Source: Secrets of a Happy Life, p. 54Saved by cboyack in teaching learn school teacher 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]Can't find a good quote on teacher? Try searching ScriptureTag!