Teaching Quotes · Page 56

The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.

— Wallace D. Wattles

If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.

— Steve Rizzo

If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.

— John Assaraf

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

— Cynthia Lewis

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

— Mike Krzyzewski

We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.

— Kyan Douglas

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

— Peter Block

“It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.”

— Gerry Abbey

I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop…

— M. H. Abrams

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the…

— Ivan Illich

I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the…

— Albert Ellis

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.

— Wendy Whelan

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly…

— Robert Scheer

I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My…

— Denis Johnson

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect…

— Dalai Lama

The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested…

— Alan Tower Waterman

“So you'll teach me?" Val asked. Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire." "I don't want to…

— Holly Black

Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may…

— Bertrand Russell

Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks…

— Jan Carlzon

If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond…

— Maximus the Confessor

I'd like to give every young teacher some good news. Teaching is a very easy job. Administrators will tell you what to…

— Rafe Esquith

Obama wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot…

— Rush Limbaugh

God's ways do not change... Still he shows his freedom and lordship by discriminating between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel…

— J. I. Packer

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

— Bertrand Russell

“We teach best by how we live life; who we are instructs with absolute clarity.”

— Bryant McGill

I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

— Summer Sanders

“When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves.”

— Bryant McGill

“School exams are memory tests, in real-world no one is going to stop you from referring a book to solve a problem.”

— Amit Kalantri

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

— Annie Dillard

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not…

— Sam Abell

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

— John Dewey

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

— Paul Samuelson

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

— Gilbert Highet

“The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us.”

— F.T. McKinstry

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

— Horace Mann

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

— Rick Riordan

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

— Edmund White

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

— Philip J. Hanlon

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton