Teaching Quotes · Page 53

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

— Bob Goff

“Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.”

— Gordon Neufeld

“If I could make money making armpit farts, I would. But since I can't, I teach. And write.”

— Richard B. Knight

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

— Vernon Cooper

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

— Thomas Steinbeck

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

— Joan Larkin

I believe that teaching is one of the most noble professions and it's no easy task to shape the minds of the…

— Himani Shivpuri

preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.

— Paul the Apostle

The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and…

— Kersey Graves

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing…

— John Garrett

By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across…

— William P. Leahy

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may…

— Craig Groeschel

I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the…

— Diane Paulus

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share…

— John Carmack

Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of…

— Shinichi Suzuki

I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were…

— Jeannette Walls

Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that…

— John Locke

There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be…

— Wilford Woodruff

Even if the hermits do not appear to benefit other beings with their presence or teachings, still they are enormously inspiring to…

— Tenzin Palmo

“Maybe you've gotten through something and when you did you thought, I am leaving that behind and will never return. And that's…

— Vince Antonucci

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education…

— Ken Robinson

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of…

— Pope John Paul II

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

— Terry Goodkind

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

— Chogyam Trungpa

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

— Madeleine L'Engle

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Bryant McGill

“The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity.”

— Bryant McGill

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.

— Ray Rice

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

— Jerome Bruner

You cant let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

— Barack Obama

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

— Geoffrey Canada

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

— Georges Clemenceau

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

— Virginia Graham

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

— Thomas Carlyle

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

— Robert Burns

A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.

— Don Meyer

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

— Cat Stevens