Teaching Quotes · Page 53

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

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

— Evan Esar

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

Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer, if we figure out the supports and infrastructure to make…

— Ai-jen Poo

Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

— David Perkins

All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever…

— Carolyn Porco

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and…

— John Locke

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but…

— Paulo Freire

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100…

— Peter Koestenbaum

We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy…

— Dominique Moceanu

I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought;…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us…

— Bertrand Russell

Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is…

— David Elkind

Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expressed…

— Pope John Paul II

Men had made, we believe, fundamental changes in the doctrines, purposes, and practices of the Pristine Gospel and Church. There had been…

— Lowell L. Bennion

Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors,…

— Origen

When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them…

— Adam Hamilton

The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize…

— Chogyam Trungpa

It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their…

— Louis Menand

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

— Bill Nye

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

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

— Ken Bain

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

— Dick Cavett

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

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

— Leo Tolstoy

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

— Anonymous

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

— Peter Maxwell Davies

“You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.”

— Bryant McGill

Technique wasn't my favorite thing to learn, and I doubt I would be great teaching it.

— Brian Urlacher

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

— Cynthia Lewis

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

— M. Russell Ballard

“The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours.”

— Jose A. Bowen

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to…

— Milton Berle