Teaching Quotes · Page 35

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

— Betty Smith

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

— Nicholas Negroponte

There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.

— Shunryu Suzuki

“So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?”

— E.R. Braithwaite

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.”

— Idries Shah

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

— Alfie Kohn

“But teaching students to ask that question, independent of subject matter knowledge, won’t do much good.”

— Terry Marselle

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

— Gautama Buddha

If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader…

— Alan Greenspan

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to…

— James Loeb

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of…

— Vidal Sassoon

To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for…

— George S. Patton

I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the…

— Edsger Dijkstra

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the…

— Horace Mann

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their…

— Anonymous

My advice to seniors - and I consider myself one - is to first and foremost take care of your body. Secondly,…

— George W. Bush

I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in…

— Jessica Lange

Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent,…

— Bertrand Russell

We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we…

— Ajahn Chah

Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not…

— Sathya Sai Baba

Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our…

— Oliver DeMille

“Teaching and learning _religious plurality often ends up privileging religious _texts_ over _practice_ and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and…

— Namsoon Kang

The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources…

— John William Strutt

I come from a teaching family so, we never had anything to do with the financial world.

— Pratik Gandhi

The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

— Peter O'Toole

“I meet them in this stadium, strangers at opposing desks until I wave my red flag.”

— Marina Leigh Duff

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

— Neil LaBute

I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

— Philippa Gregory

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

— Bryant McGill

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I…

— W. Eugene Smith

Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

— Max Planck

Fathers should teach their sons how to earn money because mothers teach their daughters how to spend it.

— Vikrant Parsai

Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training."

— Rush Limbaugh

Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

— Ross Perot

“If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world.”

— Tim Fargo

The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human…

— Huineng

“In the marathon of life negativity is never as light-footed as a dreamer's sprint.”

— Bryant McGill

We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.

— Ralph Regula

...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

— John G. Kemeny