Teaching Quotes

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.

I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

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

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

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.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.