Top 100 Teach Them Quotes
#1. Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about.
Sanford I. Weill
#2. They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.
N.K. Jemisin
#3. All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.
Roberto Bolano
#4. If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
David Mitchell
#5. I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival.
Tom Douglas
#6. As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.
Eli Roth
#7. If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.
John Flavel
#8. Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.
Assata Shakur
#9. My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible!
Simon Le Bon
#10. Most people in the psychology field believe that if we do not get a child to bond at a deep level with someone by age eight, we have lost them. We can never recover them and teach them empathy. Never.
Patti Henry
#11. Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].
Elie Wiesel
#12. There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
Sylvia Earle
#13. All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
Marcus Aurelius
#14. You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.
Johnny Hunt
#15. When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
Kevin Bacon
#16. In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.
Joel Barlow
#17. I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.
Jack Johnson
#18. Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.
Tamer Hassan
#19. Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.
Swami Vivekananda
#20. Teach them [your children] in such a way that they could not misunderstand the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#21. I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.
Jerry Hall
#22. Reagan's Drugs Czar, Carlton Turner, said that kids deserved to die as a punishment for smoking poisoned weed, to teach them a lesson. Two years later, he called for the death penalty for all drug users. On
Shaun Attwood
#23. I wanted to protect you, but I'm starting to think that the best thing you can do for people is teach them how to protect themselves. Every girl needs to be at least a little dangerous.
Kai Cheng Thom
#24. The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.
Christina Romer
#25. Children only know what you teach them.
Paul Ramsey
#27. Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
Joan Baez
#28. Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. I know because your mice have been sending Facebook messages to my mice. They really like the caps lock key. Someone should teach them about proper email etiquette.
Seanan McGuire
#30. In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Lydia Sigourney
#31. Every day, our kids are faced with obstacles in their way. As parents we need to teach them how to get up and Keep Going.
Mayra A. Diaz
#32. Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.
Hans Zinsser
#33. Most learning problems exist not within the child but in the inadequacy of the system to find a way to teach them.
Gay Su Pinnell
#34. The jury, which is the most energetic means to make the people rule, is also the most effective means to teach them to rule.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#35. You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Eldridge Cleaver
#36. I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.
Helen Keller
#37. What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell.
Leonard Ravenhill
#38. [C]hildren were a much more difficult audience than adults because no on had yet had a chance to teach them that it was better to be polite than honest.
Patricia Briggs
#39. When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#40. When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and look deep within their own hearts.
N. T. Wright
#41. If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.
Roger Ailes
#42. You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.
Mary Gaitskill
#43. Schoolgirls are not distractions.
They are students.
Teach them something other than misogyny.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#44. It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts ... it is to teach them to think.
Robert M. Hutchins
#45. If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.
William Bennett
#46. I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance.
Daryl Morey
#47. Teach them to understand biblical principles before converting them
Sunday Adelaja
#48. Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.
Anne Sullivan Macy
#49. I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.
Eugene V. Debs
#50. You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.
Roger Ailes
#52. I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.
Rita Rudner
#53. The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
Carl Rogers
#54. The Davidsons think that they're untouchable, but I'm going to teach them that if they double cross me, they will be dealt with. I'll make them touchable.
Valenciya Lyons
#55. Think about it for a second:
Babies are not born prejudice, they are not racist,they don't hate, they don't judge, and are not born believing in christianity, buddhism, sikhism, hinduism, judaism or any other ism.
We, as adults, teach them all these things.
Steven Aitchison
#56. Tell them to teach them that when they call you nigger to make a rhyme with trigger it makes the gun backfire
Ralph Ellison
#57. Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something ... My theory is a children's book ... can be just for fun.
R.L. Stine
#58. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Maria Montessori
#59. She greeted me very happily and asked if the children had been bad. To me, that was a strange question--in my culture, we expect children to be bad and good, and that parents will teach them the difference.
Mini Aodla Freeman
#60. I swear ... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
Hippocrates
#61. Like other parents in this country, we want to give our children the best opportunities, to shower them with love, to teach them respect and a love for the rich and diverse traditions America has to offer them.
Jennifer Chrisler
#62. Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.
Peter Drucker
#63. None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.
Simon Wiesenthal
#64. Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and offerings to the Church. Teach them that those blessings could come virtually no other way.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#65. A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we must teach them to yell, run, and tell.
Carolyn Byers Ruch
#66. Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.
Robert Rodriguez
#67. Players know how to dribble, shoot and pass. The challenge is to teach them why they should do it a certain way, and when they should do it.
Marv Harshman
#68. My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
Billy Crudup
#69. There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not?
Ken Robinson
#70. Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
Marcus Aurelius
#71. Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.
Cortney S. Warren
#72. If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.
Marie Clay
#73. If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
#74. I feel like making the mistakes I always wanted to make, but never had the courage to ... I can make new friends and teach them how to be crazy too in order to be wise. I'll tell them not to follow the manuals of good behaviour but to discover their own lives, desires, adventures and to live
Paulo Coelho
#75. I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.
Penn Dayton Badgley
#76. Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.
James Dyson
#77. You could take winos off the sidewalk in front of the drugstore and teach them to be poets in half an hour.
Nell Zink
#78. Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.
Lou Reed
#79. The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them
Arnold Bennett
#80. What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn the, that it could never be Eden?
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#81. People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new.
M.F. Moonzajer
#82. When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.
Brene Brown
#83. Scientists believe that monkeys can be taught to think, lie and even play politics within their community. If we can just teach them to cheat on their wives we can save millions on congressional salaries.
Jay Leno
#84. Don't beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you.
Shannon L. Alder
#85. If I were a writer of books, I would compile a register, with a comment, of the various deaths of men: he who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live. - Michel de Montaigne, "That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die
Paul Kalanithi
#86. [Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Jim Henson
#87. Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.
Guido Van Rossum
#88. as her mother promised to teach them everything a young lady needed to keep a house. As if, Marilyn thought, it might run away when you weren't looking.
Celeste Ng
#89. How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.
Charles De Lint
#90. School does a great job of teaching students to do what we set out to teach them. It works. The problem is that what we're teaching is the wrong stuff. Here
Seth Godin
#91. I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.
Robert Sternberg
#92. I'm a sadist at heart, and I have learned that one of the cruelest things you can do to someone is to teach them something, and thereby cause them to question their ignorance and long-held beliefs.
Peter Masters
#93. What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
Voltaire
#94. If the child shows through its conversation that the educational work of the school is being undermined by the attitude taken in his home, he will be sent back to his parents, to teach them thus how to take advantage of their good opportunities.
Maria Montessori
#95. Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.
Jean Piaget
#96. You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
Lance Armstrong
#97. I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
Robert Morgan
#98. This month past. They had been engaged for six months (I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time - had no inherited experience to teach them as it were), and of course, as long as there was a
Joseph Conrad
#99. I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.
Joel Osteen
#100. The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own.
Matt Groening
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