Teaching Quotes

Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before you act and thus expand your mind

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger.

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

Don't believe false teaching that says you won't suffer if you really love Jesus. Jesus will end all suffering eventually, but on earth he suffered more than anyone.

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.

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

Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

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

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

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

I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be taught in and out of the Church and that such teaching is part of the sifting process of mortality

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn; these are our stories.

The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.

The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.

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.

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.

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

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.

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

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

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.

Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems.