Teaching Quotes · Page 37

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

— Peter Maxwell Davies

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

— Leo Tolstoy

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

— Anonymous

“You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.”

— Bryant McGill

When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference.

— John Wooden

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

— William James

Technique wasn't my favorite thing to learn, and I doubt I would be great teaching it.

— Brian Urlacher

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to…

— Milton Berle

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved…

— John Cameron

Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the…

— Ralph Strangis

It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can…

— Rajneesh

Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you…

— Anonymous

By leaving a student to himself he may... be led to undertake matters above his strength, but the trial will at least…

— Joshua Reynolds

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to…

— Anonymous

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands…

— Josef Albers

Some people pass through our lives in a shorter time frame than we had hoped to teach us things they never could…

— Anonymous

“I want to live until I learn everything -absolutely, then just die... Or; wait, no; I want to still live to teach…

— Mahmoud Mahdaly

The Psalms are much more than poetry. Many of them bear the title, Maskil, or teaching psalm. They are thus intended to…

— Ray Stedman

I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be…

— Thomas Huxley

They're always such alive females. And also, all those love stories - no man in Austen has ever fallen in love with…

— Anna Maxwell Martin

I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When…

— Jessica Valenti

It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things…

— John Taylor Gatto

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of…

— Salvador Dali

I'm a fundamentalist in the true sense. That is to say, I follow the fundamentals of religion... But for over 1,400 years…

— Mahathir Mohamad

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

— Noam Chomsky

“The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours.”

— Jose A. Bowen

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

— Cynthia Lewis

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

— M. Russell Ballard

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

— Dick Cavett

“The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.”

— Ken Bain

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

— Vladimir Putin

Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

— George Arnold

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

— Mark Twain

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

— Ellen Langer

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

— Li Hongzhi

Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

— D. A. Carson

The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.

— Evan Esar

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

— Bill Nye

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit…

— Pindar