Teaching Quotes · Page 31

“Balance in life is the key to everything.”

— Bryant McGill

“It is so delightful to teach those one loves!”

— Andrew Lang

No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.

— E. W. Howe

“Your purpose is simply what you do each day.”

— Bryant McGill

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.

— John Engler

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

— Anonymous

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.

— Spider Robinson

The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.

— Harvey Dunn

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are in the business of teaching and modeling obedience to God.”

— Alexander Strauch

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

“Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.”

— Bryant McGill

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

— Augustus William Hare

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

— Frank Auerbach

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

“I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring…

— Seymour Simon

“your lack of knowledge may not for you but surely it is dangerous for your child because you cannot teach them which…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen…

— Hermann Hesse

You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching…

— Benjamin Franklin

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching,…

— Niklaus Wirth

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as…

— Anonymous

Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do…

— Laozi

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of…

— Leonard Susskind

“Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has…

— Namsoon Kang

I think we have to go through everything we go through in our life, and I believe my purpose in life was…

— Wayne Dyer

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of…

— Jonathan Kozol

On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to…

— Gregory Pardlo

For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what…

— Keith Devlin

My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you…

— Anonymous

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse…

— Michael Gove

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“There is truth and knowledge beyond present understanding.”

— Bryant McGill

To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts.

— David Bohm

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

— Sly Stone

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

— Walter Raleigh

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

— Robert Genn

If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?

— Tony Porter

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

— Steve Perry

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

— Aristotle