Teaching Quotes · Page 54

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

— Angelina Jolie

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

— Peter Orner

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

— Mark Twain

“Who you spend your time with is who you are, or who you will soon become.”

— Bryant McGill

Each day we learn something new. You may not see any results now but in the future you will for sure.

— Anonymous

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

— Anonymous

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

— John Philip Sousa

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for…

— Gerhard E Frost

God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and…

— Michael S. Heiser

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and…

— John Jay Chapman

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing…

— Fawn M. Brodie

Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must…

— Jonas Salk

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself;…

— Jean de la Bruyere

While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is…

— Frederick Lenz

When I came home after my statutory term as surgeon general, I just resumed my life here in southern Arizona. Teaching at…

— Richard Carmona

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids…

— Tom DeLay

In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia.…

— Arthur Hertzberg

Perhaps the greatest reason for missionary work is to give the world it's chance to hear and accept the gospel. The scriptures…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“Dear God, I ask that today and every day that follows you wash any anger from my heart. I desperately want to…

— Ron Baratono

“Don't make any decision to impress people. They would act like they are impressed to find they are not.They act like they…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else…

— Charles Darwin

The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of…

— Susan C. Aldridge

Turning against the church I also had to turn against a lot of the teachings of people in my family who were…

— Harry Belafonte

When I was young, I went to college, had a teacher who was, had been a student of Trilling's at Columbia, this…

— Louis Menand

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.

— Boyd K. Packer

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?

— Terry Pratchett

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for…

— Lee Iacocca

“All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago.”

— Bryant McGill

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

— Robert H. Shaffer

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

— Jean Piaget

Teaching is supposed to be a vocation for life - not a lifelong vacation.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

— John Henrik Clarke

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

— Albert Einstein

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

— Edward T. Hall

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

— Mother Teresa

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

— Josef Albers

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

— B. F. Skinner