Teaching Quotes · Page 53

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

— Khalil Gibran

It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

— Tim Gunn

WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

— Dave Eggers

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps…

— Itzhak Perlman

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

— Bruce Barton

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

— Ben Marcus

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

— Holbrook Jackson

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years…

— Eliza Dushku

Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they…

— Donald Trump

Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a…

— Nat Hentoff

I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like…

— Simon Helberg

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but…

— Winifred Holtby

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months…

— Marvin Olasky

I feel like there is an emphasis against teaching geography in American schools. Americans don't say, "I'm going to Germany." They say,…

— Ayshay

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do…

— Carter G. Woodson

If you try to impose a rigid discipline while teaching a child or a chimp you are working against the boundless curiosity…

— Roger Fouts

But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“The first ring glowed in the distance, lit up by consumerism that was brought to Jakarta courtesy of western cultures and Christian…

— Tucker Elliot

One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing,…

— Mary Blakely

I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether…

— John Edensor Littlewood

Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to…

— Pope Leo XIII

No matter what spiritual path you've walked or what teachings you've followed, they must lead you back to no path and no…

— Adyashanti

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“When you carry a frown you will see more frowns; when you carry a smile you will see more smiles.”

— Bryant McGill

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

— Manuel Puig

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Discipline is positive. Discipline is training. Teaching and discipline are inseparable.

— Jean Fleming

It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching

— John Ruskin

My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.

— Howard Pyle

When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.

— Henri Nouwen

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

— Jack Kornfield

Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality.

— Marshall Gregory

“Love always was and always will be the only real answer. Why else do you think we have been taught so much…

— Bryant McGill

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

— Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

— Nathaniel Branden

Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

— William Westney

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

— Albert Camus