Teaching Quotes (176 quotes)

Picture of quotation author William Glasser
„Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.“
― William Glasser ―
Picture of quotation author Jane Welsh Carlyle
„Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.“
Picture of quotation author Robert Maxwell
„The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.“
― Robert Maxwell ―
Picture of quotation author Erica Jong
„Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.“
― Erica Jong ―
Picture of quotation author Lynda Barry
„'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories.“
― Lynda Barry ―
Picture of quotation author Eckhart Tolle
„Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.“
― Eckhart Tolle ―
Picture of quotation author David Hockney
„I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.“
― David Hockney ―
Picture of quotation author Alison Gopnik
„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.“
― Alison Gopnik ―
Picture of quotation author Elaine Pagels
„Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their dominant teaching about salvation, offered only through Christ, and, in particular, through the church they claimed to represent.“
― Elaine Pagels ―
Picture of quotation author Eugene H. Peterson
„I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.“
Picture of quotation author Venerable Bede
„I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.“
― Venerable Bede ―
Picture of quotation author Tom DeLay
„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.“
― Tom DeLay ―
Picture of quotation author Louise Nurding
„The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.“
― Louise Nurding ―
Picture of quotation author Joanne Harris
„My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.“
― Joanne Harris ―
Picture of quotation author Marianne Williamson
„I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.“
Picture of quotation author Alan Moore
„All too often education actually acts as a form of aversion therapy, that what we're really teaching our children is to associate learning with work and to associate work with drudgery so that the remainder of their lives they will possibly never go near a book because they associate books with learning, learning with work and work with drudgery.“
― Alan Moore ―
Picture of quotation author Suzanne Somers
„I do good in the world - at least I try to. I speak on behalf of women, and I know I have made the lives of women happier as a result of teaching them what I have learned relative to true health rather than disease care.“
― Suzanne Somers ―
Picture of quotation author Rush Limbaugh
„Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.“
― Rush Limbaugh ―
Picture of quotation author Gil Scott-Heron
„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.“
― Gil Scott-Heron ―
Picture of quotation author John Wooden
„Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.“
― John Wooden ―

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