Teaching Quotes · Page 52

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

— Garry Winogrand

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Sometimes you have to get away from what you know to discover what you don't know.”

— Bryant McGill

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

— Carl Sandburg

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

— Barbara Ann Kipfer

Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord.

— Richard G. Scott

“The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.”

— Christopher Vogler

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

— Saadi

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

— J. Michael Straczynski

The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing…

— David Berliner

Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and Eternal Knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds…

— Sri Aurobindo

I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new…

— J. F. C. Fuller

Take your time, teach what you love, be unabashedly you, and try not to compare yourself to someone who's been teaching longer…

— Kathryn Budig

No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.

— Jack H. Adamson

There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing…

— Desmond Tutu

In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time. Sometimes the student…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access tv station. As in driving the…

— Louis C. K

As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared…

— Noam Chomsky

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see…

— Bonnie Hunt

In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the…

— Annie Besant

If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise,…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Over the years, I have noticed that the child who learns quickly is adventurous. She's ready to run risks. She approaches life…

— John Holt

Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.

— Rumi

We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

— Marian Seldes

The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

— Robert Audi

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

— Heidi Klum

There is beauty in difference. No one is born a racist! Teach love and respect and welcome diversity.

— Sarah Moores

The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.

— Marshall Gregory

An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.

— James E. Faust

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

— Hypatia

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who…

— Jonathan Alter

Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.

— Gautama Buddha

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

— Marcel Proust

The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.

— L. Tom Perry

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

— Dick York

The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.

— Pema Chodron

When you think of your past love; you may view it as a failure; but when you find a new love, you…

— Anonymous