Quotes About Teaching Our Youth

#1. Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities ... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life. - Author: Henrietta Mears

#2. One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. 'What's the point?' he said. 'Kids aren't getting jobs.' You never hear faculty talk that way. He did. - Author: Daniel Amory

#3. I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name. - Author: Moliere

#4. What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and ideals, a knowledge of which is essential to all youth who would assume their place in society as thinking, feeling human beings. - Author: John Mortimer Smith

#5. The more I live, the more I recognize that the teaching moments in my youth, especially those provided by my parents, have shaped my life and made me who I am. It is impossible to overestimate the influence of parents who understand the hearts of their children. - Author: Robert D. Hales

#6. That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will. - Author: Thomas Huxley

#7. This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity. - Author: William Shakespeare

#8. It seems to me in a general sense we as a society are enamored with the mystical, mysterious, the unseen & unknown. We are looking for the hidden teaching, the secret scroll or fountain of youth, and of course heaven and hell. - Author: Bryan Kest

#9. Arms and the man - Author: Charles Harrison

#10. I actually do quite well in Omaha. It's one of my better games. I love pot-limit Omaha and Omaha high-low. I do quite well in them. If I play in a casino, I usually play some kind of mixed game with Omaha and hold 'em. - Author: Chris Moneymaker

#11. We need to step up our teaching so that our youth do more on their own to understand the doctrines of Christ and the reality of the Restoration, and we need to find a way to motivate them to write these things on the 'tablets of their hearts.' - Author: Bonnie L. Oscarson

#12. Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses. - Author: John Milton

#13. My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless ... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help. - Author: Kathe Kollwitz

#14. As parents one of the biggest jobs we have, is teaching our children how to resolve problems effectively. We live in an era where everyone is quick to act the fool over simple issues. As we used to say when I was on the streets, 'everybody wants to cut a movie'. - Author: Drexel Deal

#15. I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them. - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills. - Author: Tom DeLay

#17. In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. - Author: Yann Martel

#18. I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow. - Author: Junot Diaz

#19. There are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark! - Author: Barbara Kingsolver

#20. I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. - Author: Martin Luther

#21. The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#22. My choice is to be engaged even if that means I am tainted. I live with contradictions, in accordance with the human condition, but do my best not to forget what absurdities are involved. - Author: Jaron Lanier

#23. Peace and love, that's what we all need. - Author: Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#24. Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation. - Author: Bob Latta

#25. When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed. - Author: Leslie Stephen

#26. O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain. - Author: Lord Byron

#27. Hugh Laurie once described how he eventually came to realise that there is not a finite amount of success in the world, and that someone else gaining great success did not necessarily mean that there was now less to go around for everyone else. It's a good thing to remember. - Author: Rob Brydon

#28. In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty. - Author: Joseph P. Bradley

#29. One antidote for sexual truancy lies in simply teaching youth the wonder, the miracle, the reverence for the creation of life itself. Life is a divine creation. You don't take chances with creation. - Author: Sam Levenson

#30. So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked. - Author: Mark Twain

#31. How easily Caleb had taken the teachings of his youth - the many gods, the animate spirit world - and simply recast them in terms of our teaching. - Author: Geraldine Brooks

#32. The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche