Top 100 Don't Teach Quotes
#1. I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.
Phil Hartman
#2. If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.
Sherry Turkle
#4. One of the main reasons is that most Sunday school curricula only teaches disconnected Bible stories. They don't teach how we know the Bible is true, how to defend the faith, and how to answer the skeptical questions of today.
Ken Ham
#5. I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
Abel Ferrara
#6. People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
Richard M. Nixon
#7. They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?
Heather Matarazzo
#8. We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ... the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.
Rupert Murdoch
#9. Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.
Marissa Moss
#10. The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.
Colin Trevorrow
#12. Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.
Seth Godin
#13. 'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.
Merle Haggard
#14. Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#15. There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.
Bill Keller
#16. It's the thing they don't teach you in film school - what happens after you finish your movie.
Leland Orser
#17. Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.
Frederick Lenz
#18. What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.
Chuck Palahniuk
#19. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?
Eriel Jenkins
#20. The army don't teach enlisted men how to fly," I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. "We gotta do that for ourselves.
Amy Lane
#21. Schools teach you how to work for money, but don't teach how to make money work for you
Robert Kiyosaki
#22. Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.
Eckhart Tolle
#23. I'm not looking to fail you. I don't teach with the hope everyone will play games on their phone during lectures and then skate by with Cs." "If you did, you'd probably be much happier." "I'm going to ignore that.
Dahlia Adler
#24. Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.
C.S. Lewis
#25. We don't teach flowers to bloom; we ensure they have the best conditions in which to do so.
Dane R. Pascoe
#27. We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us less lonely. But we are at risk because it is actually the reverse: If we are unable to be alone, we will be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely. Yet
Sherry Turkle
#28. People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
Felicia Day
#29. I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.
Jim Brown
#30. Careful, Sofia," said Don Lorenzo.
"Don't teach a sailor to shit in the ocean," she muttered.
Scott Lynch
#31. With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.
Paul Vixie
#32. There's no harm in a child crying: the harm is done
only if his cries aren't answered ... If you ignore
a baby's signal for help, you don't teach him
ndependence ... What you teach him is that no
other human being will take care of his needs
Lee Salk
#33. At Julliard, they don't teach you where to move your face for the camera, you know?
Rutina Wesley
#34. He'd wanted us to be more like boys, and now we were. You don't teach boys to be charming. It makes people think they are devious.
Margaret Atwood
#35. In this Puritan sinkhole of a culture, we don't teach children the uses of pleasure, and so they decide we are fools and go their own way, blindly. If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks.
Paul Monette
#36. Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that.
Erich Schiffmann
#37. Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist, then I'll get nonviolent. But don't teach me to be nonviolent until you teach some of those crackers to be nonviolent.
Malcolm X
#38. For a couple of days he was nice and I was on cloud number 9,damn they don't teach how to come down from there instead leave us to gravity.
Pushpa Rana
#39. You can not be afraid when you get to this level to teach. I don't care what level you're at, if you don't teach, you're worthless.
Mike Butcher
#41. Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.
Neal Shusterman
#42. Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.
Eugenie Scott
#43. Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
J.I. Packer
#44. There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable with that. I don't teach that type of Zen.
Frederick Lenz
#45. I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.
John Baldessari
#46. 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.
Joyce Carol Oates
#47. I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.
Neil Farber
#48. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing
#49. Fish for a man, he'll eat for a day, don't teach him to de-bone that fish, You may not have to worry about him tomorrow!
V. Pain
#50. When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
Graham Nash
#51. You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
#52. We don't teach you how to dwell. We also don't teach you how to forget. We teach you how to move on.
Seanan McGuire
#53. Youths are passed through schools that don't teach, then forced to search for jobs that don't exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.
Huey Newton
#54. The moments of the class must belong to the student - not the students, but to the very undivided student. You don't teach a class. You teach a student.
Ken Bain
#55. What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell.
Leonard Ravenhill
#56. They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don't teach you a thing about death. There's no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.
Ozzy Osbourne
#57. You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
Tobias Wolff
#58. Don't teach too many postures; just the main ones, and hold them for a long time.
Dharma Mittra
#59. We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.
John Denver
#60. Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.
James Dyson
#61. Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another.
Bernard Baruch
#62. I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
Walter Dean Myers
#63. Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.
Jim Rohn
#64. Don't preach. Don't teach. Don't judge. Take a loved child by the hand and explore something fascinating together.
Dee Hock
#65. The boy answers, "Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt."
Indra says, "I ask. Teach." (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)
Joseph Campbell
#66. There's a rule they don't teach you at Harvard Business School. It is: If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
Edwin Land
#67. In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary
#68. Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
John Kricfalusi
#70. We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.
Charles E. Leiserson
#71. It's something that this country hasn't had to deal with. But there's going to be a whole new generation that doesn't know their father. It's almost selfish of us to die. They train us as warriors. But they don't teach us how to take the pain away.
Jim Sheeler
#72. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don't teach boys to do the same? I
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#73. I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years.
Rajneesh
#74. I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein
#75. I think it's a tragedy that our schools don't teach kids about money. I think it's a tragedy that it has to come to an emergency before we evolve.
Robert Kiyosaki
#76. Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child.
Deepa Bhushan
#77. I don't teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim.
Shah Rukh Khan
#78. If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
Fran Lebowitz
#79. If you want to live a happy life, don't teach your wife how to drive a car or a motorcycle.
Junaid Jamshed
#80. We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create.
Muhammad Yunus
#81. I don't teach anymore, but I can still clearly see fifth period after lunch - that's a real tough time to teach. And I tried to imagine writing a story that would appeal to those kids - even when they're tired, even when they're bouncing off the walls.
Rick Riordan
#82. How about suicide rate. And what a shame to lose them after they've made it back. We keep them alive, but we don't teach them how to live.
Mary Roach
#83. But a doctor learns, because he has to, not to worry actively about patients until the worrying can do some good; meanwhile, they have to be walled off in a quiet compartment of the mind. They don't teach that at medical school, but it's as important as your stethoscope.
Jack Finney
#84. Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.
Chris Christie
#85. Some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school ...
John Geddes
#86. My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
Rumi
#87. I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
#89. Don't teach me how to live. I'm wicked now. I have money. But I'm magnanimous. I'll give you twenty rubles and three days to sack the city! I'm like Suvorov! Plunder the city, Kisa! Have fun!
Ilya Ilf
#90. In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.
Cleveland Amory
#91. Oh, I hope I don't teach. Because look what we did: we saved the zoo animals and the nice children, and we damned the afflicted and the blacks. You know what I do every day in that classroom? I do everything in my power to make sure those poor souls won't learn the obvious lesson.
Chris Cleave
#92. I don't teach. I just show them why to learn, what to learn, how to learn, and the ultimate purpose of learning.
Debasish Mridha
#93. We don't teach them to fight fair, and we don't start a fight.
Lee Child
#95. I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.
Rob Roberge
#96. If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don't have a trade. I don't teach or anything. I just love to make up characters and gradually build a story around them.
Elmore Leonard
#97. If we don't learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us all. The other option is to wait for the government to tell us what their financial supporters want us to know.
Richard Diaz
#98. You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#99. If you don't look back to self reflect, you're only going to repeat the same mistakes. Those mistakes will continue to show up in your dating lifescape because you haven't learned the lesson they were supposed to teach you.
Jaha Knight
#100. I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
Warren Bennis
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