Teaching Quotes · Page 48

“One of the fastest ways you can profoundly change your life is to rid yourself of toxic people.”

— Bryant McGill

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

— Maurice Natanson

That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight.

— Michael Eric Dyson

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.”

— Bryant McGill

Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.

— Robert Kiyosaki

“Your unresolved issues will continue to call-in experiences to teach you what you need to learn.”

— Bryant McGill

“Parents, don’t invest in your child's teaching; invest in your child's learning.”

— Steve Ahn

There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside…

— Jonathan Kozol

Success isn't about winning everything; it’s about achieving your dream, be that teaching middle school or flying jets. And no matter what…

— Zosia Mamet

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books…

— Jack Prelutsky

We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.

— Will Richardson

I do believe that there is a greater being that has brought me this far through life. Something or someone is on…

— A. J. McLean

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but…

— David Christian

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time…

— Moby

'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about…

— Lynda Barry

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is…

— H. Rap Brown

The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking…

— Bobby Bowden

“An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to "teach" their children. We should help parents understand…

— Raymond S. Moore

In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church.…

— Scott Anderson

The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and…

— Thomas S. Monson

It was only when I got to high school and was in the art program that my artistic talent was recognized. The…

— Paul Smith

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can…

— Daniel Goleman

So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem…

— Philip Sidney

“The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.”

— Bryant McGill

We're teaching our children how to live. We need to start teaching them how to die.

— Bill Bright

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Saul Gorn

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.

— Yalitza Aparicio

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

— Abraham Lincoln

Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)

— Patricia Briggs

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

— Jerome Bruner

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

— Wallace Stegner

“That’s why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.”

— Dale Carnegie

Sometimes, we need someone to teach us, to love us, to hurt us, to protect us, and to help us to be…

— Anonymous

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

— Anonymous

After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.

— Wallace Stevens

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

— Elie Wiesel

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

— Mason Cooley

“Conquest was once over the outer territories, but the new conquest is for the inner-territories of our hearts.”

— Bryant McGill