Teaching Quotes · Page 39

His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.

— Frederick Lenz

“Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.”

— Bryant McGill

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

— Frederick Lenz

Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

— Eliot Wigginton

There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.

— Austin Kleon

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

— M. C. Escher

If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.

— Gregory Meeks

The best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide…

— Richard G. Scott

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way…

— Frederick Lenz

In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is…

— Linus Pauling

Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give…

— Larry Moss

[Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth…

— Ayn Rand

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience…

— Isaac Watts

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and…

— Carter G. Woodson

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few…

— William James

It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that…

— Saint Augustine

My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of…

— Tony Dungy

The Spirit of Justice is the single most important seed Piers planted; if you don't live by its teaching, your chance of…

— William Langland

We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of…

— Peggy Noonan

"Dukes of Hazzard" or something you could, you know that, your work is going to be made up of that - episodic…

— Quentin Tarantino

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with…

— Esme Raji Codell

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given…

— Donald Miller

“If you want meaning in your life you must give your life meaning.”

— Bryant McGill

“The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?”

— William Badke

teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.

— Morgan Llywelyn

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

— John Maeda

“Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.”

— Tom Althouse

“You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.”

— Bryant McGill

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

— Margaret Drabble

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

— Laurence Housman

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

— Fred W. Friendly

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

— St. Jerome

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure…

— Bell Hooks

Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.

— Alice Mattison

Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.

— Parker J. Palmer

There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.

— Dora Russell

Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.

— Fred Dibnah