Teaching Quotes · Page 68

I will say I miss teaching improv way more than I miss performing improv.

— Chris Gethard

Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

— Ron Paul

“The world's only lessons are tension and fear — relax into yourself.”

— Bryant McGill

I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

— Ali Farahnakian

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

— William Faulkner

Example is not one of the best ways to teach. It is the only way to teach.

— Anonymous

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.

— Mary Kay Ash

“To Parents Teach your child what they should know if not, their friends will teach them with wrong information. They will suffer…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly…

— Ramez Naam

“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves…

— Suzy Kassem

If I had a kid, and I had a choice between teaching somebody how to avoid trouble, or teaching them how to…

— Fiona Apple

Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that…

— Betsy DeVos

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring…

— Nancy Kassebaum

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can…

— A. R. Ammons

Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home…

— John Jay Chapman

The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These…

— H. G. Wells

Robertsons love Sundays! The most important thing we do is gather together with our church family for worship, teaching, and fellowship. After…

— Kay Robertson

No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in…

— David O. McKay

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults…

— Keith Johnstone

There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came…

— George Polya

“We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can be good about large classes.…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the…

— James Dwight Dana

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

— Antony Hewish

“What we want for others doesn't work unless they want it for themselves.”

— Bryant McGill

When all is said and done, the home is the ideal forum for teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.

— Tad R. Callister

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.

— Andrew Ng

Fixing our schools must begin with reforming the way we attract talent to teaching.

— Michael Bennet

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

— Edward Tufte

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.”

— Anonymous

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

— Walter Raleigh

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

— Robert Genn

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?

— Tony Porter

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

— Augustus William Hare

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

— Frank Auerbach

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within…

— Charles de Gaulle