Teaching Quotes · Page 15

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

— Dabney Coleman

Learning is as much an art as teaching

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

— Sidney Sugarman

The longer the test the better you feel when it's over.

— Cynthia Lewis

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The years teach us much, which the days never knew.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.

— Charles E. Young

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

— Plato

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

— Annie Dillard

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

— Edmund White

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

— Philip J. Hanlon

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

— Rick Riordan

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

— Horace Mann

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

— Gilbert Highet

“The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us.”

— F.T. McKinstry

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also…

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

— Jon Porter

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your…

— John Ruskin

I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my…

— Richard Rohr

Because God loves us, he gives us practical teaching and boundaries to protect our hearts. The whole thing is one big expression…

— Jennifer Rothschild

Formal theological teaching in Africa is deeply rooted in the Western missionary movement . However, in practice, the church wrestles with how…

— Ed McBain

You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each…

— Frederick Lenz

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had…

— Eric Hoffer

Something as important as marriage equality, which is now a constitutional right [in the USA], is something that cannot be denied. It's…

— Margaret Cho

But what is your true self is the God within you who became you, and when you realize that you are not…

— Goswami Kriyananda

Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize…

— Lisa Delpit

“To benefit from what the best teachers do, however, we must embrace a different model, one in which teaching occurs only when…

— Ken Bain

Either [Jesus] was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe…

— Ronald Reagan

No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we…

— Marianne Williamson

It concerns me when I see a small child watching the hero shoot the villain on television. It is teaching the small…

— Peace Pilgrim

I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved…

— Malcolm X

Teach the student first, the music second and the piano third.

— Frances Elliott Clark

Help people by teaching them to help themselves.

— Melchor Lim

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

— Paul Goodman

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.

— Thomas Jefferson

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

— Mark Twain

“I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

“Learn to discover your divine potential.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

— Plato