Teaching Quotes · Page 70

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

— George Steiner

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a…

— Natalie Cole

I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. —Raistlin Majere

— Margaret Weis

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

— Marva Collins

“There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.”

— Bryant McGill

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

— Ron Dart

I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.

— Carolyn Murphy

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

— Joseph Fourier

A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified.…

— Frederick Lenz

In short, we needed to shift our thinking and teaching about values-driven leadership from asking the question "What is the right thing…

— Mary C. Gentile

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people…

— Criss Jami

I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on…

— Richard Salter Storrs

We need to step up our teaching so that our youth do more on their own to understand the doctrines of Christ…

— Bonnie L. Oscarson

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while…

— Elliot W. Eisner

On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings…

— Jimmy Carter

The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is…

— David McCord

I think Saudi Arabia often finances radical Islam and the teaching of hatred to the West and hatred of Americans. I think…

— Rand Paul

I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the…

— James Alison

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he…

— Jacques Barzun

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's…

— Princess Margaret

For me, the moral dimension of life is that you are committed, to doing everything that you do, with a sense of…

— Neal Gabler

The longer we are members of the Church, the better we understand the gospel, the more we will be inclined to be…

— Theodore M. Burton

Have you taught a Sunday School class and felt when you finished that you had really taught someone some principle of the…

— Eldred G. Smith

The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)

— Anonymous

Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.

— Anonymous

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

— Jerome Bruner

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

— Quintilian

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

— Todd Barry

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

— Aristotle

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.

— Todd Whitaker

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead…

— Richard Pousette-Dart

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.

— George Benson

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

— Carl Rogers

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

— Alice Walker

We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

— Guy Claxton

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

— Robert Frost

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

— Ram Dass

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

— Robert H. Jackson