Teaching Quotes · Page 30

“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it…

— Shannon L. Alder

Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts…

— Gurney Williams

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

— Albert Camus

I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.

— Dalai Lama

Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.

— Geoffrey Canada

Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's…

— Jon Foreman

...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history,…

— Rich Mullins

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

— Richard Hugo

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from…

— Naomi Wolf

The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly…

— Judith Herrin

“You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming," said Marilla. "The trouble with you, Anne, is that…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

My mother is teaching me Indian recipes. I'll go to the market, get everything fresh, have a glass of red wine, and…

— Sendhil Ramamurthy

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead…

— Frank Herbert

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a…

— Kathleen Hanna

“This is the eternal challenge with ignorance — ignorance can't see itself.”

— Bryant McGill

I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.

— Bill Nye

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

— Jim Henson

My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day.…

— Nick Ferguson

“One of the problems with teaching is that there's a temptation to evaluate what we do in the classroom based on how…

— Doug Lemov

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

— Stephen D. Krashen

When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of…

— Maimonides

To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are…

— Christina Rossetti

Every real teacher is myself in disguise.

— Richard Bach