Teaching Quotes · Page 72

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

— Stephen D. Krashen

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

— Maria Montessori

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

— D. A. Carson

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

— Garry Winogrand

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

— Marianne Williamson

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

— Derwin L. Gray

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

— Terry H. Anderson

“Sometimes you have to get away from what you know to discover what you don't know.”

— Bryant McGill

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.

— Wendy Whelan

I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My…

— Denis Johnson

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly…

— Robert Scheer

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the…

— Ivan Illich

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop…

— M. H. Abrams

I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the…

— Albert Ellis

I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can…

— Michael Sandel

To remain attached to the temporal, to the changing is to remain within the world of misery because the temporal will be…

— Rajneesh

As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but…

— John Travolta

At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much…

— Donald Wuerl

It's hard for these athletes to stay healthy. They are constantly being bombarded with unhealthy advertising. Peer pressure can override the body's…

— John Kessel

At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to…

— Anna Maria Chavez

... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with…

— Anna Julia Cooper

It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before…

— Billy Graham

When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wanted to be healthy - to…

— Alison Sweeney

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

— Barbara Ann Kipfer

Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord.

— Richard G. Scott

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

— Carl Sandburg

Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.

— Rumi

We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

— Saadi

“The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.”

— Christopher Vogler

The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

— Robert Audi

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

— Marian Seldes

No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.

— Boyd K. Packer

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?

— Terry Pratchett

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

— Jean Piaget

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

— Robert H. Shaffer

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for…

— Lee Iacocca

“All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago.”

— Bryant McGill