Teaching Quotes

I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We shouldn't be teaching creationism.' Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.

Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.

If I had a kid, and I had a choice between teaching somebody how to avoid trouble, or teaching them how to get out of it, I'd teach them how to get out of it.

Teach the student first, the music second and the piano third.

Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.

...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching

I wonder who's kissing her now, Wonder who's teaching her how.

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.

In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.

Believe in yourself, step one. Believe in the order, step two. Believe in the teachings, step three.

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.

I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.

So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different ways because I don't think there is a "way".

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.

The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.

His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.

The deeper inner teachings are presented to very few because few would understand them. The exoteric teachings are presented to many.

The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.

It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot of sense to us, they might to someone else. Who are we to say?

Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it.

I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.

A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of mind the teaching will take place in non-verbal ways through direct experience.

When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.

Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings.

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to themselves.

You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're asleep. These are the secret teachings.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of books, and invested me in the lives of others and the world around me.

I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.

Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world--an assigned parking space.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the pope is the custodian.

Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.

I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.