Teaching Quotes · Page 39

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

— Joseph Fourier

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

— Jerome Bruner

Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.

— Anonymous

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

— Todd Barry

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

— Quintilian

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.

— George Benson

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead…

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.

— Todd Whitaker

Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski.…

— Ian Dunbar

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

There are times when you may be overwhelmed by the teachings of the Way. At such moments, it is important to continue…

— Morihei Ueshiba

Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is…

— Hudson Taylor

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of…

— Beverly Cleary

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a…

— Hyman Bass

There's many lanes on the highway of enlightenment, they don't have to be on the razor's edge like the yellow line dotted…

— Surya Das

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen -…

— Bill Mollison

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were…

— Jeannette Walls

There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be…

— Wilford Woodruff

While walking in a rapid stream we cannot tread twice in the same water. Neither can we spend twice the same time.…

— Wilford Woodruff

“We may take as our guide, here, John Dewey's observation that the content of a lesson is the least important thing about…

— Neil Postman

Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…

— Edward Said

I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President of the…

— Heber J. Grant

“Roses and thorns are parts of the same plant. Somehow though, some people are concerned mainly about the roses. The rose is…

— ST221

I've been working with Riccardo Tisci from Givenchy.It's been a long collaboration, and I don't think it's going to stop now. It's…

— Carine Roitfeld

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

— Aristotle

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

— Alice Walker

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

— Carl Rogers

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

— Ram Dass

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

— Robert Frost

We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

— Guy Claxton

“Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.”

— Amit Kalantri

The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

— William James

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

— Robert H. Jackson

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy…

— Yakov Smirnoff

All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.

— Henry Adams

“The petty worries of the school room must not be carried to your home or boarding place.”

— Thomas E. Sanders

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

— Hilton Als