Teaching Quotes · Page 72

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

— Robert Wilson

“We don't teach flowers to bloom; we ensure they have the best conditions in which to do so.”

— Dane R Pascoe

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

— Richard Baxter

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

— J. C. Ryle

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

— Kevin Garnett

If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

— Elie Wiesel

Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.

— Richard L. Evans

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them...

— Charlie Haden

Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never…

— Walter Rauschenbusch

“Just preaching "you are blessed" to a congregation is like giving them a big fertile land. They need the seeds to plant…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Educators are in the news, too. Usually that’s bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you…

— Tucker Elliot

I'm a huge fan of the liberal arts approach of teaching you to think, analyze, and communicate, then sending you out into…

— Hilary Mason

“When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.”

— Olabisi Obideyi

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met…

— Joanne Harris

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say,…

— Marya Hornbacher

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most…

— Hillary Clinton

Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the…

— Chico Xavier

How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them…

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. If we all hated our father and…

— Philip Pullman

You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching…

— Christa McAuliffe

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires…

— Michael Faraday

All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With…

— Jack Kornfield

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

— Claire Coffee

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

— George Stigler

Life, is something that no one can teach you, you have to learn it.

— Jerril Thomas Abraham

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

— Peter Drucker

Every time you ride, your either teaching or un-teaching your horse.

— Gordon Wright

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

— Paul Samuelson

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

— John Dewey

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not…

— Sam Abell

I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

— Summer Sanders

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

— Annie Dillard

“When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves.”

— Bryant McGill

“School exams are memory tests, in real-world no one is going to stop you from referring a book to solve a problem.”

— Amit Kalantri

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

— Edmund White

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

— Philip J. Hanlon