Teaching Quotes · Page 46

When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference.

— John Wooden

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

— William James

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

— Vladimir Putin

Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

— George Arnold

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

— Dick Cavett

“The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.”

— Ken Bain

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

— Mark Twain

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

— Ellen Langer

With respect to teaching, I couldn't make sense of mainstream economics when I had to teach it to college students. At the…

— Michael Yates

I like teaching. I would like to help out with the young catchers; be there for them and obviously, you know, what…

— Jorge Posada

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready…

— Thomas Huxley

I don't care whether it was once sacred or not, I HATE WHAT I DO. It's destroying my soul, making me lose…

— Paulo Coelho

I'm appalled that an industry has grown around teaching a practice as wholesome and spiritual as yoga, so I decided to create…

— Andrew Mason

The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both…

— Sharon Gannon

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I…

— Alice Walker

I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We…

— Eugenie Scott

“Every day the same things came up; the work was never done, and the tedium of it began to weigh on me.…

— Cullen Thomas

Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence,…

— Lydia Sigourney

Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and…

— Garrison Keillor

How do you get out of a belief system? First you have to destruct the belief system. Traditionally, the teacher is supposed…

— Ricky Ray

Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real…

— Fannie Barrier Williams

Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or…

— John Dewey

Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning…

— Russell L. Ackoff

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things…

— Anonymous

Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

— Li Hongzhi

For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

— W. C. Sellar

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit…

— Pindar

“Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child.”

— Bryant McGill

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

— Alice Waters

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.

— William Osler

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

— D. A. Carson

The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.

— Evan Esar

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

— Bill Nye

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

— Alfie Kohn

“The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.”

— Idries Shah

I come from a teaching family so, we never had anything to do with the financial world.

— Pratik Gandhi

The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

— Peter O'Toole

“I meet them in this stadium, strangers at opposing desks until I wave my red flag.”

— Marina Leigh Duff