Teaching Quotes
As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.
What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."
Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.
This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.
The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.
To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.
You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will.
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.
If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.
The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.
People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.
Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.
There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.
In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.
I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.
I've always really been interested in getting to work with QVC because I love teaching people about fashion and I love seeing people get excited by what they're wearing.
I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
Some people live, eat and breathe art, and they love acting and filmmaking. I've got other loves. I love animals. I love teaching. I love kids. That's always something in the back of my mind.
I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.
I love teaching people how to handle their money and I've built a brand on that skill.
I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.
