Teaching Quotes · Page 55

“.if you're looking into infinity of deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..”

— Boris Kovalík

I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.

— Todd Haynes

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

— W. Somerset Maugham

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

— Mary Pope Osborne

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

— George Polya

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

— Adyashanti

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

— Paul Erdos

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching,

— Thomas P. Campbell

It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far…

— Felix Adler

“The transformed person is a revolutionary only because he has revolutionized himself. He gives the people inspiration by holding up a mirror…

— Vironika Tugaleva

A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who…

— James E. Myers

My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing…

— Birdy

Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in…

— Miguel Syjuco

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets…

— Glenn Beck

A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of…

— Theodore Roethke

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching…

— Marva Collins

People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system.…

— Timothy Leary

I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy…

— Margaret Atwood

I have deliberated carefully about which of the terms that are unfamiliar to many of my readers I wanted to take time…

— Dean Spade

Business requires an unbelievable level of resilience inside you, the chokehold on the growth of your business is always the leader, it's…

— Marc Benioff

Nothing written in any book is a perfect reflection of truth.(...) No teachings and no bibles on earth are perfect. They can…

— Harold Klemp

For nearly a decade now, I've been teaching others how to thrive by filling their bodies with energizing vitamins, nutrients, minerals, antioxidants,…

— Kris Carr

I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my…

— Kevin Hart

...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call…

— Benjamin Bloom

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

— Alexander Pope

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

— Abraham Verghese

I'm starting a virtual school for the world, teaching things the way I wanted to be taught.

— Sal Khan

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the…

— Ella Henderson

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

— Milton Berle

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

— Paul Dickson

The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.

— Robert Stone

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

— Janet Erskine Stuart

Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.

— Stacy Allison

At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

— Omar Dorsey

“Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water.”

— Bryant McGill

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

— Edward de Bono

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.

— Deborah Wiles

Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.

— Charles E. McKenzie

What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

— Lev S. Vygotsky