Teaching Quotes

The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer.

It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

Classes teaching you how to breathe. I'm 32, I think I've got the hang of it.

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.

People teach what they most need to learn.

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.

I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.

Discipline will only teach the techniques - a great teacher gives discipline, motivation and love

Both my mom and my grandma were really big influences on me not only by being strong and teaching me to be strong but also owning their salt as well.

teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.

The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.

The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.

Part of the notion in Shambhala teachings is that everybody can live their lives so they get weaker and more stressed out as they go along, or so they get more fortitude and strength.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.

I have always wanted to teach, and coaching is teaching.

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.

Teaching children how to be eco-friendly at preschool age is just so obvious and so fantastic. It creates habits that they get into for a lifetime and then they put pressure on their parents.

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

Be a wonderful role model because you will be the window through which many children will see their future.

More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

I always say, don't be a Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be a Muslim, be Mohammed-like. Be Buddha-like. Emulate these great spiritual Masters and what they were teaching.