Teaching Quotes · Page 118

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and…

— Jesse Ventura

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite…

— Charles Lamb

I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

— Taryn Manning

Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence,…

— Lydia Sigourney

I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.

— Mary Doria Russell

Christ wasn't teaching people to hate Jews. He was a Jew himself. He wasn't teaching people to hate anybody who didn't believe…

— Wayne Dyer

You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.

— Marva Collins

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

— Noam Chomsky

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender…

— Moses

The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and…

— Thomas S. Monson

Teaching and editing have helped me enormously, and brought wonderful people into my life. When I see an author I'm editing struggling…

— Hannah Tinti

For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well,…

— Jack Canfield

I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to…

— Dan Chaon

“To teach, learn. To learn, teach.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

— Jonathan Edwards

By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of…

— Ramez Naam

“As Mary delivered what was to be her last lecture about the Galapagos Islands, she would be stopped mid-sentence for five seconds…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us…

— L. Tom Perry

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to…

— Immanuel Kant

“Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.”

— Gordon Neufeld

When you watch Canadian kids [Box Lacrosse Players] score, when you see their skill level around the cage, you wonder to yourself,…

— Dom Starsia

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

— Andy Hargreaves

There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach…

— Louis Agassiz

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

— Harvey Penick

Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.

— Marion Brady

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

— Plato

Life, is something that no one can teach you, you have to learn it.

— Jerril Thomas Abraham

... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and…

— Maria W. Stewart

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new…

— J. F. C. Fuller

There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or…

— Richard G. Scott

When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and…

— Dana Goldstein

Classes teaching you how to breathe. I'm 32, I think I've got the hang of it.

— Karl Pilkington

Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask -…

— Barbara Johnson

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

— Hugh Howey

“You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours on them.”

— Bryant McGill

Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.

— Robert Fritz

I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have…

— Erica Jong