Teaching Quotes
2884 Teaching quotes by 1777 unique authors
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
— Edward R. Murrow
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
— Ralph Nader
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I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue…
— Liam Neeson
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
— Henri Nouwen
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
— Bill Nye
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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a…
— Flannery O'Connor
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I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
— Bill O'Reilly
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
— Peter O'Toole
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I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you…
— Barack Obama
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The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching -…
— Bobby Orr
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You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's…
— Bobby Orr
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
— William Osler
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I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There's…
— Joel Osteen
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The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an…
— Brian De Palma
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Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.
— Ron Paul
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One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
— Itzhak Perlman
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I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just…
— Brad Pitt
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The wildest colts make the best horses.
— Plutarch
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