Teaching Quotes · Page 73

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

— Rick Riordan

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

— Horace Mann

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

— Gilbert Highet

“The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us.”

— F.T. McKinstry

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

— Anonymous

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

— John Polkinghorne

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

— Benjamin Zander

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

— Wendy Kaminer

Real schools ought to provide people with techniques of self-defense, but that would mean teaching the truth about the world and about…

— Noam Chomsky

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may…

— John Ruskin

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies…

— Elie Wiesel

The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent.…

— Anonymous

But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just…

— Danica McKellar

Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.

— J. I. Packer

That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do…

— Matthew Quick

Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is,…

— Julia Glass

Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors...must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young…

— Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues.…

— Howard Gardner

I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is…

— Alice Walker

In the world of comics, Jack Kirby and Will Eisner may have been more influential artists, but Joe Kubert was its most…

— Mark Waid

Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many…

— David O. McKay

Jesus said whatever you do to the least of these my brothers you've done it to me. And this is what I've…

— Rich Mullins

“Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”

— Brian Tracy

I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi.

— Chris Tucker

Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

— Milton Berle

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

— Joyce Cary

“I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

— George Farquhar

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

— John Anthony West

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

— William Shakespeare

...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.

— W. Edwards Deming

One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching.

— Henry B. Eyring

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

— Wallace Stegner

“We cannot educate the citizens of tomorrow based on the requirements of yesterday.”

— Abhijit Naskar

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

— Hermann Hesse

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

— Robert Kraft

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

— Paul Robeson