Teaching Quotes · Page 55

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

— Art Garfunkel

As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.

— Jonathan Falwell

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

— Guy Claxton

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

— Dr. Seuss

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

— Alfred North Whitehead

...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.

— W. Edwards Deming

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling…

— Stephen King

God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality…

— Jen Kirkman

“One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it,…

— Hermann Hesse

“because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically,…

— John Green

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort…

— Jacques Derrida

I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why…

— Juliana Spahr

Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening…

— M. Russell Ballard

I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can…

— Michael Sandel

Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No,…

— W. W. Sawyer

“I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and…

— St. Augustine of Hippo

“I agree that is it important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to…

— Christopher Paolini

It is impossible to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be a Republican. It's philosophically absolutely opposed - if they could…

— Neil Peart

Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they…

— Darren Shan

It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't…

— Ina May Gaskin

The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with the ear.…

— Ajahn Chah

To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take…

— Anonymous

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

— William Shakespeare

One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching.

— Henry B. Eyring

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

— John Anthony West

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

— George Farquhar

“I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on…

— Viola Davis

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

— Paul Robeson

“Quit allowing negativity to block the positive gifts which are meant for you along with the hard lessons and tribulations.”

— Bryant McGill

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

— Robert Kraft

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

— Wallace Stegner

“We cannot educate the citizens of tomorrow based on the requirements of yesterday.”

— Abhijit Naskar

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

— Hermann Hesse

I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

— Jeff Goldblum

The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.

— Jean Cocteau

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

— Bobby Ray Inman