Teaching Quotes (187 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Sander Levin
„Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.“
― Sander Levin ―
Picture of quotation author Dick York
„When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.“
― Dick York ―
Picture of quotation author A. Bartlett Giamatti
„Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.“
Picture of quotation author Arne Duncan
„Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.“
― Arne Duncan ―
Picture of quotation author Margaret Whiting
„So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.“
Picture of quotation author Conor Oberst
„I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.“
― Conor Oberst ―
Picture of quotation author C. Everett Koop
„The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.“
― C. Everett Koop ―
Picture of quotation author Jonathan Kozol
„There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.“
― Jonathan Kozol ―
Picture of quotation author Athanasius
„One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.“
― Athanasius ―
Picture of quotation author John Engler
„Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.“
― John Engler ―
Picture of quotation author Joyce Carol Oates
„I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.“
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 ―

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