Teaching Quotes · Page 65

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

— Stephen King

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

— Jacques Barzun

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.

— Igor Babailov

I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.

— Marianne Williamson

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

— Andy Hargreaves

I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in…

— Frederick Lenz

When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious…

— Seamus Heaney

“The raison d'être for teaching and learning music is to create a lifelong love for it and an ability to engage with…

— Paul Harris

Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.

— Ken Robinson

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it…

— Tom Stoppard

The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence…

— Moses Hess

Don't believe false teaching that says you won't suffer if you really love Jesus. Jesus will end all suffering eventually, but on…

— Mark Driscoll

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That…

— Robert Browning

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have…

— Donna Fargo

Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity…

— Ashley Montagu

There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to…

— Howard Whitley Eves

“It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture,…

— James Shapiro

It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The more evolutionary theory gets called an atheistic theory, the greater the risk that it will lose its place in public school…

— Elliott Sober

One of the greatest challenges for all of us is to learn how to live in the world without participating in all…

— Donald L. Staheli

Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I live near Amish communities in northern Indiana and I have the greatest respect for such faithful people. They attempt to live…

— John I. Jenkins

What we do want to see and we do want to encourage is as much live teaching as possible.

— Gavin Williamson

“One positive thought will shift the entire world under your feet.”

— Bryant McGill

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

— Isadore Singer

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

— Howard Gardner

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

— Eva Moskowitz

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

— C. Everett Koop

She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really…

— Diana Quick

Rigorous teaching schedules combined with mounds of paperwork can lead to burnout.

— Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

— Howard Pyle

I always considered the role of teaching to be very noble and relevant.

— Santiago Calatrava

“Teachers should know that the quality of the answers depends significantly on the quality of the questions.”

— Eraldo Banovac

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

— Andy Hargreaves

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

— Elbert Hubbard

“Change will never happen if you lack the ability and courage to see yourself for who you really are.”

— Bryant McGill

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

— Anonymous