Teaching Quotes · Page 64

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

— Holbrook Jackson

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“When you carry a frown you will see more frowns; when you carry a smile you will see more smiles.”

— Bryant McGill

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

— Ben Marcus

A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma

— Tsem Tulku

In the garden of life, a seed of wisdom can sometimes lay dormant and not begin to grow until many years after…

— T Jay Taylor

“There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action.”

— Lao Tzu

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

— Stephen D. Krashen

False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if…

— Max Anders

Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes;…

— John Stuart Mill

We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the…

— D.T. Suzuki

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work…

— John Sexton

One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one…

— Lord Chesterfield

The Tibetans have many teachings on how to die, consciously, and how to remain in the clear light, and it works. You…

— Tenzin Palmo

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with…

— Alfred North Whitehead

This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony…

— Pope Pius XI

“Don't just leave your footprints in the sand only to be washed away as the ocean waves come crashing to the shore.…

— Amaka Nkosazana

He will be the best Christian who has Christ for his Master, and truly follows Him. Some are disciples of the church,…

— Charles Spurgeon

Appreciation is the oil that lubricates life and keeps your wheels turning easily and freely. Without appreciation, your wheels will still spin,…

— Sue Thoele

My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

Here is an example of Confucius sayings: "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."…

— Confucius

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and…

— Thomas Sowell

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm…

— Alafair Burke

“A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place.”

— Bryant McGill

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

— Maria Montessori

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

— John Wooden

Past mistakes should teach us to create a better future, not cause us to be afraid of it.

— Anonymous

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

— Marianne Williamson

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

— Garry Winogrand

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

— Terry H. Anderson

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

— Derwin L. Gray

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

— D. A. Carson

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

— Carl Sandburg

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

— Barbara Ann Kipfer

Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord.

— Richard G. Scott

“Sometimes you have to get away from what you know to discover what you don't know.”

— Bryant McGill

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

— Robert Audi

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

— Marian Seldes