Teaching Quotes

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 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.

Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

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

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

Example is better than precept.

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"

When it comes to training I do that through teaching.

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

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

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.

With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop.

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight so we can separate from our identification.

I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.

How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!

Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.

Devotion to God is studying him in every aspect; serving God is teaching what you know of Him to others.

We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.

We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.

The Tibetans have many teachings on how to die, consciously, and how to remain in the clear light, and it works. You can see it working, and they can stay in that state for hours, days, or weeks.

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.

People remember stories much better than they remember a straight list of teachings.

David Eckman is a man you can trust... His teaching resonates with God's wisdom and compassion