T. D. Jakes Quotes

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

It's lovely to write for the youngsters because through your story, you can teach them the lessons of life.

Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!

Think about how rare it is for anyone to encounter a teacher who can open you up to the notion that there is an infinite amount of meaning and possibility and inspiration in the smallest thing before you.

Jim Rohn is a legend. Millions of people around the world have benefited immensely from his teachings.

My heart is to help hurting people. I teach people God's Word so they can overcome their problems and avoid some of the tough lessons I had to learn.

Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.

The first ministers were the twelve disciples. There is no evidence that Jesus chose them because they are brighter or nicer than other people. Their sole qualification seems to have been their initial willingness to rise to their feet when Jesus said, "Follow me."

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

I'm not a fan of technology . I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. But technology enables some exciting changes.