Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.
The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.
For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is about. Instead, the focus is on learning and applying various procedures to solve math problems. That's a bit like explaining soccer by saying it is executing a series of maneuvers to get the ball into the goal. Both accurately describe various key features, but they miss the what and the why of the big picture.
Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of street organizers or a recurring voting constituency by teaching people of the streets to fish. When you 'share wealth around' you make the distributees dependent on your next handout - beholden to your largesse with other's people's money and personally worse off in every respect.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.
What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.
Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.
Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on the mount, and had taught His disciples the 'Our Father. ' Even where they are specially relevant, Paul passes over the words of the Lord.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women.
If the wrong person preaches a right teaching, even a right teaching can become wrong. If a right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching can become right.
My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will.