Quotation Explorer - 'Teaching'

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. - James A. Garfield
We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody's. - Kifah Shah
A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning. - Mollie Marti
The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc. - Sunday Adelaja
Parents, don’t invest in your child's teaching; invest in your child's learning. - Steve Ahn
Wisdom is a lamp;all its teaching is light. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin
One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it. - Knute Rockne
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself. - George Bernard Shaw
My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will. - Ana Monnar
So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching. - John R.W. Stott
Didn't care if I wasn't paid for working after school for seven months teaching a 9th grader to read, but when he finally could, priceless! The best times in my life were when I went way beyond my paygrade to service students in need. - Ace Antonio Hall
The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children. - Shannon L. Alder
You are the energy you attract. Whether you are aware of that or not, everything you come up against is teaching you about that part within yourself. Listen carefully, it's a hint to a better you. - Nikki Rowe
I talk to friends of mine who are now teaching; they've graduated and they have classrooms. And I get really jealous, and I get really excited talking to them about their classrooms, and I want one. I think I'd be happy.
At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel. - Sydney J. Harris
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life. - Terence McKenna
Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted. - Danny Gregory
Teaching is the best way to learn. - Debasish Mridha
Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love. - Zarina Bibi
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. - Plato
The Great Commission is a devotion to study of Scriptures, preaching and teaching of the gospel of salvation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If your students aren't learning, then maybe you're not teaching. - Ace Antonio Hall
The lines gradually become their own demiurges and, like some witless yet miraculous participant, I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know. - Muriel Barbery
Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self. - Tobias Wolff
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. - Clarence Darrow
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
A good teacher does something more than teaching; he makes you start learning. - Raheel Farooq
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching. - Robert A. Heinlein
2 Timothy 3:16 ALL Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness. - Bible Verses
Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The educational process must again provide the opportunity for students to make choices and live with the consequences of these choices. Teaching is not simply telling people what to believe and do. - Donovan L. Graham
Participating in the filling of others' brains with knowledge and know-how is just an extraordinary gift only very few have. Hence, teaching a language is indeed opening these brains to the world with its similarities and dissimilarities taught in different words. - Messaoud Mohammed
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage. - Roald Dahl
Teaching starts with Tests. - Alok Jagawat
We rise, we fall.Life is a lesson.But, if not lived with the heart,holds no depth, no meaning.We must feel pain, to feel the joy, to feel the pain, and so on, so forth.It requires great courage.I try with all my mightto hold gratitude in the lesson.Thank you universe for showing mefor teaching me. - Akiroq Brost
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life. - Michael Faraday
When you hear the right teaching about God, your lives will be changed and then you can change the world. - Paul Silway
Teaching kids is like a 5 year old box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get, but you can bet your ass it ain't gonna be good. - Zany Madcap
The teaching goes on - Mitch Albom from "Tuesdays with Morrie"
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment. - Bruce Lee
the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching. - Richard DuFour
If an education does not teach the person how to live right, then the fact is that it is also not teaching how to make the right living. - Anuj Somany
The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior. - Boyd K. Packer
Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching. - Mao Zedong
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. - Ann Richards
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun
We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis Diller
I see people teaching how to make an impact, but i don't want to make dents, i want to walk lightly on the earth, grateful for universal grace. - Jay Woodman
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun
Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart. - Tamara L. Chilver
The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality. - Hazrat Inayat Khan
In philosophy, phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Wine blind tasting is the best phenomenology, phenomenology par excellence, returning us from our heads into the world, and, at the same time, teaching us the methods of the mind. - Neel Burton
Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go. - Alan Cohen
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. - Oscar Wilde
When you learn to kill animals, you are unconsciously teaching cruelty to other creations. - Debasish Mridha
Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me. - Gautama Buddha
When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice. - Michael Joseph Brown
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. - Bertrand Russell
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. - Albert Einstein
Our teaching systems mostly teach us how to conform but not how to reform. - Debasish Mridha
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read and they have been many, big, and heavy I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. - Charles Sanders Peirce
Teaching a man how to clean barnacles from a keel is an amazing useful talent, one any child should be fortunate to learn. Magochiro is our champion barnaclebully at present. String him under a keel, and he will bring back dinner enough for ten. - Michelle Franklin
The art and craft of early childhood teaching is in making decisions about fun, play and work. And it is this crafting that distinguishes the professional from the baby-sitter, parent or child minder. - Susan Grieshaber and Felicity McArdle
If an eagle is teaching you to fly, ignore the advice of turkeys. - Matshona Dhliwayo
watch out for schools that promise your kids will "experience success." I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time. - David Kahn
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. - John Ruskin
Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. - John Holt
When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts of their lives [are] less relevant. This lowered value carries over when women face sexual objectification and systemic brutalization from inside and outside the community. - Aurin Squire
I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra - Ben Mitchell
It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching. - Octavia E. Butler
Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero. - Carolyn Byers Ruch
The task of teaching has never been more complex and the expectations that burden teachers are carried out in antiquated systems that offer little support—and yet, teachers are finding success every day. - Tucker Elliot
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education. - Alice Waters
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. - Anatole France
A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching. - Anthony Liccione
More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt. - Lawrence M. Krauss
...God is already out there in the world ahead of us. In our teaching, therefore, we must do more than merely help people learn how to be good church members. We are directors preparing people for roles in a drama that encompasses every part of their lives. - Richard Robert Osmer
Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.
This is like teaching queer remedial at the continuation high school. You were fishing, and you caught me. Don't you get that?""Oh, hell no." Tristan just stared. - Z.A. Maxfield
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. - Sharon M. Draper
Instead it is the Church hierarchy that is rather teaching congregation to be afraid of darkness, instead of teaching them to go with light to overcome darkness. - Sunday Adelaja
True education kindles the student's mind but teaching fills the mind with information. - Debasish Mridha
Life doesn't change when you meet a guy and life doesn't fall apart when you break up with one. We are teaching young female readers the wrong things through books not only expressing this point, but also using these two concepts as turning plot points of novels. - Meghan Blistinsky
When you hear the right teaching about God your lives will be changed and then you can change the world. - Paul Silway
If their students aren't learning, then they are not teaching. Adapt to global, auditory, tactile & visual learners. - Ace Antonio Hall
There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them. - Peretz Smolenskin
If "doctor" means "master teacher," then I think teaching in K-12 for 10 years deserves said title. Our practicum is potent and our expertise is in the service of children. In fact, I might start calling myself Dr. Vilson on principle. Fight me - Jose Luis Vilson
If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong. - Noam Chomsky
Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job. - Angela K. Bennett
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. - Elbert Hubbard
...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for. - Shane Claiborne
The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflected all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected on the dark sea of time. - Greg Weisman
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. - Anatole France
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense. - E. W. Dijkstra
...while social analysis must always be part of curriculum development and teaching, education policy and practice needs to be protected against the dangers of fads, obsessions and moral panics. - Rob Gilbert and Pam Gilbert
My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith. - Hermes Trismegistus
I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn. - Dalai Lama XIV
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. - Paul Rodriguez
Teaching is the best way to learn. Never stop learning. - Debasish Mridha
To reduce violence, stop teaching how to find differences and teach unconditional kindness. - Debasish Mridha
If we are teaching children how to lie,to steal, and to be aggressive, why do schools punish those who lie and steal? and why does the society punish the offender criminal? - Ali Altantawi
My first day of teaching, I got hit in the head with a bandstand & needed 4 stitches. Welcome to #NYCity teaching in the 90s. - Ace Antonio Hall
Achieving your goal is greatExceeding your goal is exceptionalExceeding your goal and teaching others is Leadership - Joseph Swenson
As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It. - G.K. Chesterton
I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as the handing down of answers. So much of what passes for teaching is merely a pointing out of what items to want. - Alice Walker
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. - Oscar Wilde
No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness. - Debasish Mridha
It isn't my teaching credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It is my God who qualifies me. - Tamara L. Chilver
Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers. - Caitlin Keiper
I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives. - Seymour Simon
I Can't Compete With The Magic Of Her Eyes.But I'm Teaching Her The Tricks Of My Lips. - PS Juneja
PoemWords from the heartBreaking, teaching, healingThe deepest, purest form of artFeeling - Esther Spurrill Jones
Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life. - Debasish Mridha
If those who know leave those who don't, don't....... the world will turn to a school teaching ignorance. - Sameh Elsayed
[Home educator] sometimes teaching and parenting is tough stuff. That is the reality of the calling. I hope ... [do] not quit or give up hope but keep moving forward on the path where God guides you. - Tamara L. Chilver
Teaching is a Creative profession, it is our duty as School Leaders and Education Influencers to offer the right climate to foster innovation and support Innovative Teaching practices within our schools, and that's what will make our students succeed in the 21st century - Samer Chidiac
Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching. - H.W.L. Poonja
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. - Joseph Smith Jr.
Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach. - Pearl Buck
They that fail to understand their dreams, visions and aspirations in life and the real steps to take to make dreams a reality shall always have realities of life teaching them the had I knows of life. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. - Phil Collins
Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before. - Loris Malaguzzi
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions. - Leo Tolstoy
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. - Latin Proverb
Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you. - Gordon Korman
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. - John Wooden
There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion. - Debasish Mridha
It’s ego the false self that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true. - Jed McKenna
Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance - Soke Behzad Ahmadi
I regard teaching religion as purveying lies. - Peter Atkins
We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think. - Chuck Palahniuk
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. - John W. Gardner
Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy. - Hugh Howey
Teaching is the most powerful force that changes our world one student at a time. - Debasish Mridha
It was true; books had saved me in my home remodeling projects, but they fell short in teaching me how to trust my instincts, and how to stop thinking with my educated brain and more with my kneecaps and butt cheeks. - Dee Williams
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. - Ambrose Bierce
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. - Tertullian
Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you. - Stephen King
For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power--worship. - Robert E. Webber
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