Teaching Quotes · Page 65

I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.

— Bindi Irwin

What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.

— T.F. Hodge

Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

— Peter Senge

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

— May Sarton

Teaching yoga is the only thing I can do. I can't imagine not doing it. I love it because I believe in…

— Colleen Saidman

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

— Evan Esar

My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had…

— Quentin Bryce

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty…

— Roger Nash Baldwin

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend…

— Jonathan Kozol

We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to…

— Adora Svitak

Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus…

— Francis Chan

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

— Brian Herbert

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on…

— Diane Cilento

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons…

— Bobby Orr

If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the…

— Avery Dulles

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a…

— Christine Lagarde

I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education…

— Elie Wiesel

I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how…

— Natalie Goldberg

I went to art school, but I didn't last because in those days you couldn't take comics as a course. And they…

— Trina Robbins

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

— Maria Montessori

“Your pain and struggles only serve to remind you that you are alive.”

— Bryant McGill

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.

— Lola J. May

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

— Billy Cannon

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. . .

— Rick Sutter

It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to…

— William Shakespeare

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

— Geoffrey Holder

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

— Eugene H. Peterson

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

— Sri Aurobindo

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have…

— Erica Jong

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.

— Tim Gunn

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.

— Gordon Korman

Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.

— Thomas S. Monson

“No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

— Margaret Mead