Teaching Quotes · Page 39

The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.

— Theodore Roethke

I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

— Lydia Davis

“It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

— Edward Everett

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

— Erno Rubik

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

— Mao Zedong

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Jesus may give you eternal life, but until then, your ass going to stay right were it is until you do something…

— Bryant McGill

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students…

— Jim Harrison

“...It is only obvious that teaching is a very special art, sharing withonly two other arts-argriculture and medicin-an exceptionally important characteristic.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself,…

— Nic Pizzolatto

The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is…

— Ken Danby

“A mentor is a person, an expert in a specific area of endeavour who trains, guides and observes a less experienced person…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and…

— Vaughan Oliver

The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is…

— Lawrence R. Klein

Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the…

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose,…

— Christine de Pizan

I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness…

— Dave Matthews

Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures]…

— Hsing Yun

The teacher will never be a parent. The parents are the parents. But they have to engage in some sort of active…

— Philippe Falardeau

There's a way in which all of these grazers at the spirituality buffet are performing a service, because you could argue that…

— Wendy Kaminer

We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found…

— Zack Eswine

Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which…

— Seamus Heaney

“We can learn from teaching. But in order to master, we must be the teacher.”

— Charles F. Glassman

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

— Dalai Lama

Performing for WWE did so much for me in terms of teaching me how to act and doing fighting scenes.

— Eve Torres

“Students recognise their teachers. Teachers recognise their students.”

— Donna Goddard

It's a long road when you're on your own ,but there's no better teacher..

— Boris Kovalík

“If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within…

— Bryant McGill

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

— Beverly Cleary

It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!

— Milton Berle

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

— John Goddard

If I hadn't been an actor, I would have been a coach, and I would have been a good one. All teaching…

— Burt Reynolds

Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.

— Kevin Heath

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

— Anonymous

Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.

— Simeon Denis Poisson

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

— Jacques Barzun

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

— Leo Tolstoy

I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching.

— Kim Edwards