Teaching Quotes

Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure.

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

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 idea of what's happening.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

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 worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.

Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.

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

Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westerners about what the market really means.

It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.

The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.

God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

Example is better than precept.

We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.

My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.