Ethical Teaching Quotes

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God.

It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.

Everything we do as teachers has moral overtones.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence .

Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it

What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him.

I don't want to preach to anyone, because I'm not.

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called "the permanent things"-the norms of human action.

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.