Teaching Quotes

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration.

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that.

I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years of teaching and I hope my students have benefited from it.

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

I do not teach. I relate.

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

I started teaching myself, taking a breath or a moment that's not overreacting or having an explosion. It made me such a better person. Let alone a better mother, but also just a better human.

Those who have no mental vigilance, Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate, With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug, Their learning will not settle in their memories.

When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.

God is teaching you a Lesson of Victory.

Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.

To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

We must never allow the majority to overrule the clear teaching of the Word of God.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest game the encompassing of the infinite.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.

For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.

Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.

The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

There is no teaching to compare with example.