Teaching Quotes · Page 56

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them…

— Carl Rogers

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

David Eckman is a man you can trust... His teaching resonates with God's wisdom and compassion

— Stu Weber

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

— William Glasser

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and…

— Carolyn Kizer

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

— Agnes Repplier

Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all…

— Spencer W. Kimball

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some…

— Simon Newcomb

We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the…

— Muhammad Asad

I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the…

— Garry Winogrand

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults…

— Keith Johnstone

I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as…

— Hans Frank

“I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to…

— Haruki Murakami

Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting,…

— John Wooden

To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to…

— George Washington

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't…

— Anonymous

Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed…

— Claude Bernard

The Constitution of the United States has been mentioned...as the basis of wise decisions in fundamental principles as applied to all matters…

— Harold B. Lee

Shared governance is often the critical element that is missing in Asian universities, no matter how talented the faculty may be. Either…

— Henry Rosovsky

My new passion is to get Internet education mandated in all schools. We've got to start teaching our kids how to be…

— Erik Estrada

People are searching for reasons for believing, searching for answers to the big existential questions of "Why am I here?" and "What…

— Jonathan Morris

Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the…

— Kate Horsley

Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.

— Hongzhi Zhengjue

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

— Elbert Hubbard

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

— Helen Keller

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

— Anonymous

Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.

— Dannion Brinkley

I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.

— Patrick Rothfuss

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

— Horace Mann

“There is no such thing as a non-subjective world to a subjective mind.”

— Bryant McGill

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

— Jacques Barzun

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

— Gilbert Highet

The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.

— Timothy Keller

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

— Robert Morgan

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you…

— Josiah Royce

You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.

— Cynthia Lewis

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

— Sydney J. Harris

Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.

— Robert Reich