Teaching Quotes
There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.
My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.
My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.
Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.
One of the unique aspects of the Bible is that it is primarily a story illustrated by teaching and not primarily teaching illustrated by story.
My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research.
Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.
My days are filled with work I love - reading poems, writing poems, talking with people about poems, teaching, directing a writing program, hosting readings, etc.
You always hear about the guy who was raised by wolves. You never hear about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves. The problem is, you have a non-wolf imparting wolf teachings.
I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this poem is ..."
Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.
In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.
The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.
1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.
I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.
Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.
It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.
I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.
I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.
In the pulpit, were supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.
Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.
"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
What I like best about teaching is that it allows me to explore my own interest with a group.
If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.
When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.
My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.
I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.
I don't know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I'd like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive.
Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.
For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not only teaching. My teaching is constantly being fed by my learning.
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.
Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.