Silent Teaching Quotes

Flowers preach to us if we will hear.

The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action. Teaching without words, performing without actions: that is the Master's way.

To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.

The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.

Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.

The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?