Teaching Quotes · Page 34

Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.

— Mark Kostabi

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

— Giancarlo Esposito

Everything You Do...Educates Others About You. So be careful what you teach others through your actions.

— Wisdom

Self esteem cannot be learned and cannot be taught but like happiness it comes from the inside.

— Alanna Wilkins

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

— Allen W. Wood

When I jumped in a go-kart at three or four, with my friends, I was super fast without anyone really teaching me.

— Carlos Sainz Jr

“May you receive the wisdom of your wounds and may you live your life even larger than your pain.”

— Bryant McGill

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

— John Stuart Mill

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only…

— Sarah Dessen

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and…

— John Calvin

The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want…

— Michael Kiwanuka

We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the…

— Muhammad Asad

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults…

— Keith Johnstone

I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the…

— Garry Winogrand

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some…

— Simon Newcomb

“Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student…

— Jay Parini

When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice…

— Bill Roorbach

People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go…

— Wendy Kopp

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is…

— Robertson Davies

To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to…

— George Washington

I looked back at the previous 10 years and realized I had spent 10 years trying to convince kids to behave Christianly…

— Phil Vischer

... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He…

— Anonymous

Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals…

— David Shields

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Compassion, caring, teaching, loving, and sharing your gifts, talents, and abilities are the gateways to power.

— Jamie Sams

Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.

— John Wooden

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

— Anonymous

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

— Timothy Radcliffe

“Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.”

— Bryant McGill

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

“We are in the business of teaching and modeling obedience to God.”

— Alexander Strauch

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.

— Harvey Dunn

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

— Georges Clemenceau

“A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching.”

— Anthony Liccione

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.

— Amy Tan

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

— Tobias Wolff

We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.

— John Catsimatidis