Teaching Quotes · Page 51

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

— Thomas Huxley

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

— Frank McCourt

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be

— Franz Boas

“You cannot know what I do not tell you, yet you will be judged harshly for not knowing.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“We are never taught more deeply and more truthfully than by pain.”

— Bryant McGill

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

— Simone Weil

“Nowadays more than ever we need to see teaching as a personalized initiative with each pupil.”

— Paul Harris

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

— Erica Jong

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us…

— L. Tom Perry

If you have no interest in actually committing yourself to an actual group of gospel-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, you might question whether you…

— Mark Dever

There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his…

— Pat Conroy

What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint…

— William P. Leahy

In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects...…

— Michael Fullan

I testify of our Savior, Jesus Christ, whose teachings and example we seek to follow. He invites all of us who are…

— Dallin H. Oaks

In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers,…

— K. Patricia Cross

It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before…

— Billy Graham

... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with…

— Anna Julia Cooper

I believe God is doing a new thing in the world. God is always moving us to include more people in the…

— Gene Robinson

When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wanted to be healthy - to…

— Alison Sweeney

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that…

— Liam Neeson

Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks,…

— Rajneesh

“Real education happens only by failing, changing, challenging, and adjusting. All of those gerunds apply to teachers as well as students. No…

— Siva Vaidhyanathan

“Teaching is like having a bank account. You can happily draw on it while it is well supplied with new funds; otherwise…

— E.R. Braithwaite

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

— Jonathan Edwards

Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.

— Jimmy Heath

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

— Michael Bennet

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

— Charles Darwin

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

— John Wooden

Past mistakes should teach us to create a better future, not cause us to be afraid of it.

— Anonymous

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

— Maria Montessori

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

— Stephen D. Krashen

“A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place.”

— Bryant McGill

A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma

— Tsem Tulku

“There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action.”

— Lao Tzu

In the garden of life, a seed of wisdom can sometimes lay dormant and not begin to grow until many years after…

— T Jay Taylor

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

— D. A. Carson

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

— Terry H. Anderson

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

— Derwin L. Gray

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

— Marianne Williamson