Teaching Quotes · Page 43

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“Your uniqueness is the greatest gift you will ever receive in life.”

— Bryant McGill

We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

— Marilyn Ferguson

“Teaching is, indisputably, a wonderful, fulfilling, endlessly stimulating and hugely responsible occupation.”

— Paul Harris

Everything You Do...Educates Others About You. So be careful what you teach others through your actions.

— Wisdom

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

— Giancarlo Esposito

Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.

— Mark Kostabi

“May you receive the wisdom of your wounds and may you live your life even larger than your pain.”

— Bryant McGill

What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women…

— Alexander Haig

This week, Georgia's board of education approved a plan that allows teachers to keep using the word Evolution when teaching biology. Though,…

— Jimmy Fallon

You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to…

— Ani DiFranco

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really…

— Anonymous

Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind,…

— Kobo Abe

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture,…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'

— William Murchison

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

If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to…

— Elihu Thomson

The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who…

— George Polya

Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic…

— Charles Francis Potter

“Was I gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this morning and afternoon? Not to decieve…

— Charlotte Brontë

“You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming," said Marilla. "The trouble with you, Anne, is that…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as…

— Jess Walter

solitude begins with a time and a place for God, and God alone. If we really believe not only that God exists…

— Anonymous

Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

When I jumped in a go-kart at three or four, with my friends, I was super fast without anyone really teaching me.

— Carlos Sainz Jr

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

— Allen W. Wood

Self esteem cannot be learned and cannot be taught but like happiness it comes from the inside.

— Alanna Wilkins

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

— John Stuart Mill

“School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.”

— Vijay Dhameliya

Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.

— Red Buttons

I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility...

— W. Howard Lester

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

— George MacDonald

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

— Viktor E. Frankl

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

— S. I. Hayakawa

The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.

— Theodore Roethke

I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

— Lydia Davis

“It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

— John Wooden

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton