Teaching Quotes

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.

Clone ourselves through teaching others.

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.

Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Learning is as much an art as teaching

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Each day I take time out to study the Bible, no matter where I am. The teachings of the Bible have added a new dimension to my life. It, somehow, makes me whole.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

Life continually teaches. We eventually catch on.

But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance.

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.

I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves.

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.