Teaching Quotes

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.

If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

We teach what we need to learn.

I don't like to use a microphone around my head while I'm teaching so I had to learn how to project from my stomach more.

Teach positively, never abuse kids in the teaching process. I believe it is cowardly to teach in a negative way, to insult players, or challenge their manhood.

I do not know what the future holds. I do not wish to sound negative, but I wish to remind you of the warnings of scripture and the teachings of the prophets which we have had constantly before us.

I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.

Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.

That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.

Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like a charlatan because what I was teaching I probably couldn't do.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members

The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together.

When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching.

We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.

I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset.

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.

When anyone makes comments that are offensive to you, would you be willing to do the teaching?

I'm focusing on healing lives and teaching people that they can heal - giving them tools to heal.

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? . . . First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information.

Oh, this is going to be fun; he actually thinks he's teaching me something.

The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches.

No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.

When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

This is not just about talking or teaching a practice - this is about releasing an explosive energy of ecstasy.

Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.