The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‚basic rights.‘

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

Teach a parrot the terms ‚supply and demand‘ and you’ve got an economist.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

I can take a beginner kid that has never danced in their lives, and I can teach them something, or I can take a really advanced dancer, and I can make them into a professional.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

When you give, it comes back to you.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

The best teacher is very interactive.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.