Teaching Quotes

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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ — Edward McKendree Bounds
There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One of these realms… — Thrangu Rinpoche
A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to… — James E. Myers
The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live. — Alexander Sutherland Neill
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them. — Joe Abercrombie
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are… — Fritz Haber
A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother. — Charles M. Schulz
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself. — Bobby Ray Inman
A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?" — James E. Myers
One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come… — Bennett Cerf
What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears. — Unknown Author
What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and ideals, a knowledge… — John Mortimer Smith
The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of… — Ira Remsen
The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in… — Unknown Author
Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity. — John Goddard
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds… — John Locke
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the… — Bertrand Russell
If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so… — Elihu Thomson
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live… — Moses Harvey

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