Teaching Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

I love teaching. I wouldn't take a job that didn't include it.

Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

I do believe that there is a greater being that has brought me this far through life. Something or someone is on my side teaching me valuable lessons.

I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.

Teaching writing is a hustle.

WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

It is such a teaching in itself for us, all of us, every moment when we're with anyone.

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.

You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and doing things for others; being an instrument of that cause. That is the secret teaching.

Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

I don't know if I'm teaching my kids right, but you have to go with your own instincts. You can't be so sure that other people are going to do right by you.

My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

Speed, quality, price. Pick any two.

I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.