Teaching Quotes · Page 37

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

— Richard Hugo

“Who you allow into your life, mind and heart are among the most important decisions you will ever make.”

— Bryant McGill

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

— Baltasar Gracian

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

— James Tobin

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Gilbert Highet

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

— Horace Mann

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

— Jacques Barzun

Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice--one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.

— Rodney Yee

Rumi is one of the great spokesmen for the Quranic instruction teaching that all prophets come from God and God does not…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology…

— Wafa Sultan

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and…

— Bill Hybels

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching…

— Geoffrey Canada

You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with…

— Mem Fox

Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

If children really want to learn something, and have the opportunity to learn it in use, they do so even if the…

— Seymour Papert

As for journalism education, there are some terrifically exciting things going on in some schools. Others are struggling to adapt. Curriculum changes…

— Tom Rosenstiel

A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of…

— Henri Nouwen

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which…

— B. F. Skinner

When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing…

— Virginia Postrel

The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame…

— Nhat Hanh

Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects…

— John Ruskin

It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There…

— Lewis Thomas

“I noticed that the [drawing] teacher didn't tell people much... Instead, he tried to inspire us to experiment with new approaches. I…

— Richard Feynman

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

— Bryant McGill

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

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

— Jack Welch

Education should be about teaching, not indoctrinating students with a political agenda.

— Mark Robinson

What I like best about teaching is that it allows me to explore my own interest with a group.

— Elaine Equi

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

— Sydney J. Harris

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

— Cynthia Lewis

“The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.”

— Allan Lokos

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

— James Monroe

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

— Robert Reich

I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

— Maxine

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

— Horace

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

— Mark Twain

I'm having an amazing time teaching through the lives of people much like Jesus did.

— T. D. Jakes