Teaching Quotes

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.

One of my missions was to teach.

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them.

The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.

I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

The concept of a woman with a terrible life who needs a man to come and rescue her, doesn't apply and isn't something we should probably be teaching kids.

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

We must become what we wish to teach.

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.

You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.

Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind there is a different aggregate of self to be explored.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.