Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus it really teaches the baby who's boss.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him to teach him to love what is difficult.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also all too often where we learn nasty things like hate rage and shame.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books but to go to God in prayer and obtain divine teaching.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

In a completely rational society the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet you'd best teach it to dance.

In the practice of tolerance one's enemy is the best teacher.

I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance that profusion is not magnificence that splendor is not beauty.

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

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was 'Oh for God's sake what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Having a clear faith based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then by simply changing the key we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.