Top 76 Quotes About Teaching Philosophy
#1. Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.
Criss Jami
#2. Teaching is the best way to learn. Never stop learning.
Debasish Mridha
#4. There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
Paulo Freire
#5. I teach not by feeding the mind with data but by kindling the mind.
Debasish Mridha
#6. The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching into songwriting. But what they have in common is that they're both ways to tap into the mysterious parts of our world.
Steve Weinstein
#7. Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
William Kristol
#8. His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.
Frederick Lenz
#9. History is Philosophy teaching by example.
Thucydides
#10. You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.
John C. Maxwell
#12. Hindu philosophy was one of the greatest beneficiaries of the advent and the teachings of the Lord Buddha. I revere Buddha as a reformer of not only Hinduism but also the world, who has given all of us a new world view and vision which is critical for the survival of all of us and the entire world.
Narendra Modi
#13. As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.
Jonathan Falwell
#14. I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life.
Michael Faraday
#15. Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy ... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
Plato
#16. Our teaching systems mostly teach us how to conform but not how to reform.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything
Stewart Stafford
#18. Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life.
Debasish Mridha
#19. They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.
Dean Wareham
#20. Let children wander aimlessly around ideas.
Sugata Mitra
#21. The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.
Frederick Lenz
#22. No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#23. The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy ... and also a prolific author.
Nevill Drury
#24. 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
#25. I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.
Jennifer Lopez
#26. One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. 'What's the point?' he said. 'Kids aren't getting jobs.' You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.
Daniel Amory
#27. The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.
Dejan Stojanovic
#28. A teacher can kindle your mind and let you memorize information, but true education is often self-education.
Debasish Mridha
#29. The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'
Paulo Freire
#30. Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of this dangerous, mind-altering philosophy in tax supported schools, parks, museums, etc. is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
Kent Hovind
#31. Children are good learners. The first learn to act what they hear and see.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#32. When you learn to kill animals, you are unconsciously teaching cruelty to other creations.
Debasish Mridha
#33. True education kindles the student's mind but teaching fills the mind with information.
Debasish Mridha
#34. I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#36. Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.
Lev Shestov
#37. Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.
Felix Alba-Juez
#38. Life is the greatest teacher because it educates even those who really hate to learn.
Eraldo Banovac
#39. To reduce violence, stop teaching how to find differences and teach unconditional kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Education is not a thing apart from life - not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.
Booker T. Washington
#41. Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout the ages. Were I to go to church, I'd be a hypocrite.
Danny Masterson
#42. The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man ...
Luther Burbank
#43. There's one thing you can start doing right now that will change how you communicate with any young human: Remember what it's like to be one.
Justin Young
#44. When you don't know a thing, learn. When you know the truth, teach.
Debasish Mridha
#46. If only education will aim at teaching learners' real life and life in books and not just books, learners will learn and understand real life and not just books, and they will dare to face life with real life lessons and lessons from books!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#47. The flies were teaching an advanced seminar in philosophy as they crawled up the crack of my ass
Richard Brautigan
#48. The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.
Frederick Soddy
#49. In philosophy, phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Wine blind tasting is the best phenomenology, phenomenology par excellence, returning us from our heads into the world, and, at the same time, teaching us the methods of the mind.
Neel Burton
#51. Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.
Amit Ray
#52. I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.
Criss Jami
#53. My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.
Frederick Lenz
#54. You never can truly help people by helping them, but you can help people by teaching them how to help themselves.
Debasish Mridha
#55. Buddha, Confucius, or Socrates can bring us good teaching, moral excellence, and religious philosophy. For this they may be commended as rendering help and aid to humanity. But Jesus Christ is different: He brings us Himself as our Life.
Chip Brogden
#56. The Summa Theologiae is not, as is sometimes supposed, a potpourri of theology and philosophy; it is wholly a Summa of Theology concerned with the Sacra Doctrina, the Holy Teaching of salvation given by God's revelation.
Brian Davies
#57. The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
Criss Jami
#58. I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.
John Marmysz
#59. [Satan] has hundreds of agents writing pornographic literature and producing sex movies to pollute [the mind]. He has intellectuals in high positions teaching a hedonistic and permissive philosophy ... They lack an anchor for their real self.
Billy Graham
#60. Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.
Trofim Lysenko
#61. Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains
in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#62. Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
John Dewey
#63. The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
John Dewey
#64. When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
Carla H. Krueger
#65. Some kind of philosophy undergirds every movie, commercial, lecture, or book. Everything we take into our minds is trying to teach us something about how we should think the world is. (Life Hacks, p.83)
Jon Morrison
#66. The best thing that I can teach you is to be compassionate and kind to all.
Debasish Mridha
#67. If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching classes in religion, preaching in a local church. That is fine and noble activity. But I do not feel entitled to engage in it. So for me philosophy is my fate.
Simon Critchley
#68. Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Teaching is the most powerful force that changes our world one student at a time.
Debasish Mridha
#70. Why do we teach our children to hate others when there are so many options to love? Why do we teach hate when kindness, compassion, tolerance, and harmony add such beauty to life?
Debasish Mridha
#71. The philosophy "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work. Modeling is more powerful than words in teaching your children how to behave. Set a good example for your child!
Rex L. Forehand
#72. Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carrots, and gomashio (sesame salt), others imagine that it is summed up in the statement, "Don't eat cake and sugar." How far from the truth!
George Ohsawa
#73. My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#74. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.
Suzy Kassem
#75. LORD BOLINGBROKE, the eighteenth-century political philosopher, said that "history is philosophy teaching by examples." Thucydides is reported to have said much the same thing two thousand years earlier. Jefferson
David McCullough
