Teaching Quotes · Page 61

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

— John Steinbeck

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

— Edmund Burke

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We need to start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody's…

— Nia Tellé

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

— Jim DeMint

I love being around kids; they're honest and refreshing, and I love teaching them new things.

— Jesse Bradford

The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.

— Robert Grudin

The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They…

— Steven Pinker

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of…

— T. D. Jakes

I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good…

— Bel Kaufman

“If you can't be real and firm with others about who you are, you will be doomed to a phony, plastic bullshit…

— Bryant McGill

You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and…

— Frederick Lenz

From all kinds of flowers, Seek teachings everywhere, Like a deer that finds A quiet place to graze, Seek Seclusion to digest…

— Namkhai Norbu

I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer…

— James O. Fraser

Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize…

— Lisa Delpit

Either [Jesus] was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe…

— Ronald Reagan

“To benefit from what the best teachers do, however, we must embrace a different model, one in which teaching occurs only when…

— Ken Bain

No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we…

— Marianne Williamson

Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy…

— Mary McCarthy

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching…

— Cornelia Funke

I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved…

— Malcolm X

It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week,…

— David Elkind

“Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.

— George A. Romero

Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

— Martin Luther

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

— Sigmund Freud

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

— William James

“If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.”

— Bryant McGill

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

— Confucius

How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

“Trekking means a travelling experience with a thrilling excitement.”

— Amit Kalantri

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm starting a virtual school for the world, teaching things the way I wanted to be taught.

— Sal Khan

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

— Abraham Verghese

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

— Milton Berle

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the…

— Ella Henderson

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

— Paul Dickson

The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.

— Robert Stone