Teaching Quotes

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I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder… — Cornelia Funke
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. — Karl A. Menninger
I believe in teaching, but I donâ€™t believe in going to school. — Robert Frost
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go… — Oswald Chambers
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is… — Khalil Gibran
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. — Daisaku Ikeda
This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house thatâ€™s on fire. — Chuck Palahniuk
Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master. — Richard G. Scott
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams
I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water.… — Pema Chodron
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and… — Julio Cortazar
solitude begins with a time and a place for God, and God alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but also that… — Henri Nouwen
In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character. — Betty Smith
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly… — John Dewey
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us… — Theodore Roosevelt
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false. — Richard Dawkins
... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as… — Mortimer Adler

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