Teaching Quotes

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.

Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.

If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.

I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching

Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.

I look at society and I look at people and I say... I'm not Mr. Motivator. I think you get a better sense - I believe in energy. I believe in passion. I believe in teaching people.

For me, as a Christian I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right.

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

I have great players around me. I have a great coach talking to me all the time, constantly teaching me. I feel reborn, like I'm learning every day. When I show up, I'm happy.

My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and asking them what they are about. It's about putting your own personality into the work.

In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks.

I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.

This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.

Alix [ MacKenzie] had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

Christ wasn't teaching people to hate Jews. He was a Jew himself. He wasn't teaching people to hate anybody who didn't believe as he did.

I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.

Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.

What we believe in is what works.

All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.

We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.

A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.