Teaching Quotes · Page 86

We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in…

— Victor Papanek

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

— Paulo Freire

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

— Chico Xavier

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.

— Saul Gorn

“The most effective, lasting, compassionate form of teaching is through example. If you want to teach a child to write, write passionately.…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a…

— Jane Goodall

From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we…

— Arthur Tappan Pierson

“Live in the present, or die in your past; it's your choice.”

— Bryant McGill

I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

— Elizabeth I

I'm working on a young adult novel. I've been working on it for a while, because I don't know how to write…

— Morgan Parker

...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of…

— Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as…

— Martha Stewart

Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

— Riane Eisler

The so-called Church Fathers are not some theologians as we know them nowadays. They were close to the teaching of the Apostles…

— Notker Wolf

As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job…

— William H. Gass

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Since I was 18 years old, I have taught the Bible. For the last fifteen or twenty years, I have taught every…

— Jimmy Carter

I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings…

— Tom Shadyac

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

— Georges Clemenceau

From the Scriptures we find basic truths that may serve as the foundation of our teaching of history. The first basic truth…

— D. A. Fisher

An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go…

— Boyd K. Packer

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

— Peter Orner

The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal…

— Tariq Ramadan

I began teaching my son how to shoot when he was two, starting with the basics of a BB rifle. My theory…

— Chris Kyle

I began my career in communications and had the privilege of working with senior leaders in a variety of different business sectors.…

— John Baldoni

When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who…

— John Wooden

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

— William Arthur Ward

“The task of teaching has never been more complex and the expectations that burden teachers are carried out in antiquated systems that…

— Tucker Elliot

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills

— Jim Rohn

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from…

— Horace

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if…

— Heather Wilson

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

— Edward T. Hall

As a kid, you're starting to grow up and want more freedoms. But if you have people who are absorbing and adopting…

— Mahershala Ali

Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.…

— Ian Somerhalder

If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I…

— Marianne Williamson

“Music and symbols, they're older than human race. Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind.”

— Toba Beta

A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of…

— Paulo Coelho

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

— Richard Rohr