Teaching Quotes - page 8

We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me. View quote
Lawrence Wright
The best incentive for the mind consists in teaching it that it is possible to do anything which one really wants to do. View quote
Pelagius
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education. View quote
Alice Waters
Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad. View quote
Arthur Hertzberg
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening. View quote
Itzhak Perlman
I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen. View quote
Itzhak Perlman
Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing. View quote
Henry Kirke White
Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed. (Neil LaBute)
I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem. View quote
Gil Scott-Heron
I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching. View quote
Twyla Tharp
But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere. View quote
Chuck Schumer
I want to attract the best people into teaching. View quote
Chuck Schumer
A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. View quote
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. View quote
A. R. Ammons
In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites. View quote
Andrew Greeley
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days. View quote
Ann Beattie
At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy. (Anna Maria Chavez)
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher. View quote
Anne Sullivan Macy
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all. View quote
Annie Jump Cannon
Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern. View quote
Antony Hewish
To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000. View quote
Arne Duncan