Teaching Quotes · Page 43

“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.”

— Donalyn Miller

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

— Alfie Kohn

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

— Garry Winogrand

When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

— John Knowles

In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks.

— Viacheslav Platonov

The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found…

— Kina Grannis

But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent.…

— Anonymous

That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do…

— Matthew Quick

Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.

— J. I. Packer

I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just…

— Danica McKellar

Real schools ought to provide people with techniques of self-defense, but that would mean teaching the truth about the world and about…

— Noam Chomsky

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies…

— Elie Wiesel

There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world…

— Edward Condon

If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. If we all hated our father and…

— Philip Pullman

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires…

— Michael Faraday

You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching…

— Christa McAuliffe

Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the…

— Chico Xavier

How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them…

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

I think we have to acknowledge that people are different and succeed at different things, first of all. Men are better than…

— Zach Braff

To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to…

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.

— Bindi Irwin

What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.

— T.F. Hodge

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

— Ken Follett

“Life is a practice. When you 'fail,' you can immediately begin practicing again.”

— Bryant McGill

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

— Margaret Deland

As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.

— Quint Studer

“We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.”

— Tim Fargo

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

— May Sarton

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

— Peter Senge

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

— Evan Esar

Teaching yoga is the only thing I can do. I can't imagine not doing it. I love it because I believe in…

— Colleen Saidman

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.

— Lola J. May

“Your pain and struggles only serve to remind you that you are alive.”

— Bryant McGill

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

— Maria Montessori

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

— Billy Cannon

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. . .

— Rick Sutter