Teaching Quotes · Page 64

Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.

— Keith Best

A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.

— Evan Esar

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

— Isaac Watts

The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

— Brené Brown

Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues.

— Dorothy Dunnett

Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

— Alissa Quart

Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.

— Dalai Lama

“For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.”

— Balthasar Gracian

The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights…

— Harry S. Truman

If our lives and our faith are centered on Jesus Christ and his restored gospel, nothing can ever go permanently wrong. On…

— Howard W. Hunter

Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy,…

— Wei Jingsheng

For me there are many ways to teach; it doesn't have to be at a university. I might be a teaching assistant…

— Greg Graffin

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

— John Dewey

It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is…

— Jerome Bruner

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes,…

— Claude Bernard

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering.…

— John Steinbeck

What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory…

— Rick Santorum

This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing…

— Paulo Freire

These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim:…

— Frederic C. Howe

“The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But…

— Edward Lee Thorndike

I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Teaching my kids to give back is an essential part of parenting. It's not something that's optional. Compassion is one of the…

— Kate Snow

It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from…

— Horace Bushnell

“To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.”

— Talleyrand

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

— Idries Shah

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

— Cynthia Lewis

“Silence is more than observation; it informs from non-observation.”

— Bryant McGill

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.

— Thomas Carlyle

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

— R. H. Tawney

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

— Cynthia Lewis

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

— Albert Einstein

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

— Jane Alison

Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.

— Ashley Greene

Jim Rohn is a legend. Millions of people around the world have benefited immensely from his teachings.

— Nido R Qubein

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

— Robert Henri

The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

— Henri Lebesgue

“No one come into your life accidentally Some come into your life to learn from you Some come into your life to…

— Srinivart

I kept my teaching certificate active while I was with WWE. It definitely wouldn't be something that I'd mind going back to.

— Michelle McCool

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

— Forest Whitaker