A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might… — Rory McIlroy Copy Share Image
As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
“I agree that is it important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Marty Panzer,… — Erich Bergen Copy Share Image
The thing is, autism is a big spectrum. Going from folks who remain nonverbal, all the way up to, ya know, famous… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel,… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with… — Huineng Copy Share Image
The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“It's why I went into teaching in the first place. I like the sound of my own voice. Well that, and I… — Mercy Celeste Copy Share Image
First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in… — Lee S Shulman Copy Share Image
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people -… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in… — Stephen Neill Copy Share Image
Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the… — William James Copy Share Image
It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs,… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more… — Y. C. James Yen Copy Share Image
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough… — George Tenet Copy Share Image
