Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Something that we call developing the third eye in others. The eye is that people have intention when they're interacting, and often… — Judith E. Glaser Copy Share Image
... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what?… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing… — David Berliner Copy Share Image
“To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.” — Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed… — Stu Jackson Copy Share Image
I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
“We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.” — Olabisi Obideyi Copy Share Image
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Turning against the church I also had to turn against a lot of the teachings of people in my family who were… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100… — Peter Koestenbaum Copy Share Image
In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Your pain and struggles only serve to remind you that you are alive.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
There's certainly an issue of helping teachers to move to a new way of thinking about things, but there are also new… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“People respond when they are taught, and that primarily by example, rather than preached at. Jesus modeled just this approach in His… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching. — George Polya Copy Share Image
On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth,… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“I want to live until I learn everything -absolutely, then just die... Or; wait, no; I want to still live to teach… — Mahmoud Mahdaly Copy Share Image
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles... — William Osler Copy Share Image
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises. — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image