Teaching Quotes
Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.
A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.
Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.
People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.
We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.
Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.
Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.
But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.
Time and progress are synonymous terms--nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.
In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.
Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.
It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.
The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.
A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.
Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.
The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.
Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.