Teaching Quotes

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).

My teachings are my life.

I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me?

Teaching is performance art.

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me.

It's important to remember that there are many different types of people, styles of teaching and that we won't agree with all of them.

Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

The music was great for teaching about human nature. but I couldn't do any instruments or play anything. I like to sing. I'd rather sing than eat, but most people would rather hear me eat.

My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school.

When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power.

The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.

If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, "We have done it all ourselves."

Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles.

Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.

I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up.

I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

Even though I did not go into college teaching, I believe the education I did receive helped me to become a better coach.

I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.

O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

Rigorous teaching schedules combined with mounds of paperwork can lead to burnout.

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.