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.‘

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

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.

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

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.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

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.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Giving is true having.

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

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.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

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

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

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.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

When you give, it comes back to you.

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

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

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

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

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

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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 want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

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

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

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

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

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

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.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

The giving of love is an education in itself.