Teaching Quotes

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.

Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.

Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

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

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.