Teaching Quotes

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

I love the Lord Jesus Christ and His Church, which has been restored to the earth in our day. I treasure the teachings of His holy life from newborn infant to resurrected man, Son of God.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality.

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.

Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.

We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

We are tomorrow's past.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.

That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction.

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.

If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.

God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.

I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings.

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed to hide your light under a bushel.

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right.

We need to challenge our own theology, challenge the curriculum of our Bible schools and our seminaries, and ask simple questions. Are we teaching and producing ministers who have the right message?

[Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".

He who honestly instructs reverences God.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.

Jim Rohn is a legend. Millions of people around the world have benefited immensely from his teachings.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.

I don't do a lot of top-down teaching.

I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.

I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how this stuff works. I bring all that stuff to teaching now.

Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.

All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's why I'm a strong proponent of general education -- because I saw how it opened my eyes.

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.