Teaching Quotes - page 2

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. (Fawn M. Brodie)
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. View quote
Glenn Beck
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. View quote
James A. Garfield
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. View quote
Clarence Darrow
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. View quote
Joseph Smith
All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament. View quote
Vitruvius
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. View quote
Charles Dickens
I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be. View quote
Franz Boas
Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. View quote
John Milton
As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others. (John Travolta)
Preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. View quote
Paul
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue. View quote
Manuel Puig
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. View quote
Manuel Puig
I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future. View quote
Mary Pope Osborne
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow. View quote
M. Scott Peck
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. View quote
Robert Bly
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual, and thus to feel justified in teaching them the same subjects in the same ways. View quote
Howard Gardner
It is one of the most beautiful characteristics of Theosophy that it gives back to people in a more rational form everything which was really useful and helpful to them in the religions which they have outgrown... in this teaching as to the immortality of the soul and the life after death, Theosophy...does not put forward these great truths merely on the authority of some sacred book of long ago; in speaking of these subjects it is not dealing with pious opinions, or metaphysical speculations, but with solid, definite facts, as real and as close to us as the air we breathe or the houses we live in - facts of which many among us have constant experience - facts among which lies the daily work of some of our students, as will presently be seen. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental. View quote
Alison Gopnik
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more. (Louis L'Amour)
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent. View quote
Imogen Cunningham
The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits. View quote
Mike Krzyzewski
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession. View quote
Chuck Schumer
In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously. View quote
Godfrey Reggio