Teaching Quotes · Page 57

I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.

— L. Tom Perry

Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.

— Wilbert J. McKeachie

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

— John Engler

“If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not…

— Steve Stockman

Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper…

— Marianne Williamson

I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

— James Nesbitt

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

— Carlos Fuentes

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The wussification of America is killing us by teaching us to censor ourselves from what we believe. That's why I want to…

— Brad Stine

In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's…

— Yehudi Menuhin

In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers…

— Ernest L. Boyer

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting,…

— Roald Dahl

“We are more than role models for our students; we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social…

— Patricia Sequeira Belvel

The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while…

— Paulo Freire

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller,…

— Lydia Davis

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a…

— John Medina

IN THE WORLD OF advertising, every copywriter knows the power of two magic words: "Free!" and "New!" We see them in the…

— Jim Cymbala

Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy…

— Walter Tevis

“If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to be inadequate or…

— S.I. Hayakawa

I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend,…

— John Wooden

We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today.…

— Jacque Fresco

Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Government provided free tuition tends more and more to produce a uniform conformist education, with college faculties ultimately dependent for their jobs…

— Henry Hazlitt

But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for…

— Aristotle

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

— Paulo Coelho

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

— Vince Lombardi

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

— John Green

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

— Jim Henson

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

— Sathya Sai Baba

“No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.”

— Debasish Mridha M.D

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

— Pope Francis

You can't teach a son to be loyal if the father is not loyal. The same applies with the mother and her…

— Mercy Pheona

“Teaching is a craft; it's not something you memorize and do...”

— Chancellor Carmen Farina

Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.

— Albert Pike

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

— Samuel Johnson

Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.

— Keith Best

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

— Isaac Watts

A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.

— Evan Esar

Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues.

— Dorothy Dunnett

Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

— Alissa Quart