Teaching Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.

The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If it isn't fun, why do it?"

I'm teaching myself to believe in things I don't understand, I don't even know if they're true, but that's what dreamers do.

The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so.

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

A person's wound is where their passion is born.

Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

[Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with "traditional" approaches to teaching.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

The nerds are running the world now.

We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.

I learned from teaching. If you are perceived by the student to be belittling them or purely criticizing them without offering up words of encouragement and support, they shut down and discredit you.

Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.

At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.'

I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.

The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents.

20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting, though still a tricky proposition, is much easier.

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight.

Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry here and not Agricultural Chemistry, nor any other special kind of chemistry. ... We teach Chemistry.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.