I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.
I respect the rights of those who do not share my beliefs, but to teach my faith to my children and to share it with anyone who will listen - that is my right, too.
Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.
Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.
Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word.
The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.
I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.
One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
