In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it:… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Someone says that I haven’t taught him anything that he can remember. He can’t understand yet that that’s precisely what I am… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to. — Charles E. McKenzie Copy Share Image
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
In thinking back, not having any experience in any other elementary school, there may have been an advantage of being with different… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do… — Bruce Molsky Copy Share Image
I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Everything in life can teach you a lesson, you just have to be willing to observe and learn. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
“Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It… — Victoria Kahler Copy Share Image
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value. — Robert Kraft Copy Share Image
