Quotes About Teaching

#1. I didn't kill myself
when things went wrong
I didn't turn
to drugs or teaching
I tried to sleep
but when I couldn't sleep
I learned to write
I learned to write
what might be read
on nights like this
by one like me

Leonard Cohen

#2. I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

Jake Owen

#3. Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.

Seth Godin

#4. A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

Robert Baden-Powell

#5. Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted this fact and had perfected various devices for avoiding it. But this was perfectly all right because, to be fair, so had the students.

Terry Pratchett

#6. What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

Timothy Radcliffe

#7. While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

Samuel Dash

#8. Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

Andy Hargreaves

#9. My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

Adam Hamilton

#10. I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Albert Ellis

#11. Experience is the best school,
Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there,
Offering only one lesson called Life,
That you could only finish once you're dead!

Nelson M. Lubao

#12. The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

Harold B. Lee

#13. One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

Philip J. Hanlon

#14. You have to bring relevance to people before teaching them the ways of Christ

Sunday Adelaja

#15. I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.

Brice Marden

#16. American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one.

Seung Sahn

#17. When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique.

Tim Gunn

#18. Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.

Paul Q. Hirst

#19. Victoria was an innocent country gentlewoman who spent her time reading, teaching the local children, painting, gathering armfuls of heather in the meadow. Vivien, by contrast, was pleasure-loving and self-serving... with a moral compass that was most definitely skewed.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that's what she wants to do.

Earl Nightingale

#21. Where the teaching is corrupt or is despised, there is no religion approved by God.

John Calvin

#22. The teaching of Colossians 2:3-8 is unambiguous. ALL knowledge (note: not simply knowledge of "religious" matters is to be found in Christ.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#23. 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.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#24. There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

Elizabeth I

#25. A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.

Zephyr Teachout

#26. The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Bill Gates

#27. The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.'

Jeff Lindsay

#28. I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

Chuck Schumer

#29. One of the primary reasons that men undertake the teaching of false doctrine is greed.

Curtis A. Chamberlain

#30. Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer, if we figure out the supports and infrastructure to make all of that possible - and it is completely within reach.

Ai-jen Poo

#31. I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.

Tom Shadyac

#32. I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, "We shouldn't be teaching creationism." Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

Eugenie Scott

#33. I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers ...

Alice Walker

#34. Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Ann Richards

#35. For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.

Mark Pellegrino

#36. If you don't find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you're teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

T.D. Jakes

#37. Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Dickens

#38. A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.

Bill Robinson

#39. My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but ... precede it.

John Stuart Mill

#40. As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.

William A. Dembski

#41. I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Peter Eisenman

#42. Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized ...

Michael Bell

#43. For often we wickedly blind ourselves to the occasions of teaching and admonishing them, sometimes even of reprimanding and chiding them, either because we shrink from the labor or are ashamed to offend them, or because we fear to lose good friendships,

Augustine Of Hippo

#44. Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.

Fred Allen

#45. The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'

Thomas Sowell

#46. Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

May Sarton

#47. Consistent teaching and guidance set proper bounds upon the children's behavior.

Lucile Tate

#48. Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

Mark Twain

#49. Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.

Deborah Ann Woll

#50. How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

Warren Bennis

#51. Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Baltasar Gracian

#52. 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

#53. Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#54. Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.

Simeon Denis Poisson

#55. I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

Patricia Polacco

#56. Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

Horace Mann

#57. We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was important for us to be involved in the Natick community because we think so highly of it.

Darren Flutie

#58. You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and teaching, and getting around, and spreading the gospel until it does. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)

Joan Reardon

#59. He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.

Thomas Aquinas

#60. The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

William Godwin

#61. What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

John Dewey

#62. The wussification of America is killing us by teaching us to censor ourselves from what we believe. That's why I want to see political correctness die in my lifetime, but first ... I want to watch it suffer.

Brad Stine

#63. Unfortunately, too many of our schools depend on inexperienced teachers with little training in the subjects they're teaching, and too often those teachers are concentrated in already struggling schools.

Barack Obama

#64. I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.

Richard Rohr

#65. I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.

Bruce Lee

#66. When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

Joyce Cary

#67. Second, the teacher should be given extensive liberty in the selection of the material to be taught and the methods of teaching employed by him. For it is true also of him that pleasure in the shaping of his work is killed by force and exterior pressure.

Albert Einstein

#68. Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

Stephen Covey

#69. Genetic evolutionists warn that if we fail to apply the lessons of our shared genetic destiny, which should be teaching us the importance of cooperation among all species, we threaten human existence.

Bruce H. Lipton

#70. When you hear the right teaching about God your lives will be changed and then you can change the world.

Paul Silway

#71. Teaching is not about how we see things, it is about how children see things.

Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

#72. Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.

Ravi Zacharias

#73. The idea is that when the teaching begins to happen, it is an experience - but experience needs language, and at the same time, language needs experience.

Chogyam Trungpa

#74. I believe in teaching as a real job. I don't think it's a substitute for anything else. It's been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn't changed that.

Ron Carlson

#75. Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

Isaac Watts

#76. I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

Claire Coffee

#77. Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

Gilbert Highet

#78. As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.

William Gurnall

#79. But with all this said, wine was given to gladden the heart of man (Ps. 104:15), and one of the duties a father has is that of teaching his son to drink.

Douglas Wilson

#80. Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure of the heart, an unselfish work, a sacred trust that blesses both giver and receiver.

Bonnie D. Parkin

#81. I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

Gretchen Rubin

#82. All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

E.F. Benson

#83. What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and ideals, a knowledge of which is essential to all youth who would assume their place in society as thinking, feeling human beings.

John Mortimer Smith

#84. I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

Seamus Heaney

#85. For when you suffer, you can be sure that one of two things is happening. Either God is teaching you to rely on his grace and sufficiency through your pain, or he is teaching you to return to his grace and sufficiency through your pain.

Joe Thorn

#86. I believe in teaching, but I don't believe in going to school.

Robert Frost

#87. But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

Audre Lorde

#88. Bible teaching about the Second Coming of Christ was thought of as "doomsday" preaching. But not anymore. It is the only ray of hope that shines as an ever brightening beam in a darkening world.

Billy Graham

#89. Life doesn't change when you meet a guy and life doesn't fall apart when you break up with one. We are teaching young female readers the wrong things through books not only expressing this point, but also using these two concepts as turning plot points of novels.

Meghan Blistinsky

#90. The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

Salman Rushdie

#91. The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.

Sharon Gannon

#92. I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

Mary Pope Osborne

#93. Teaching in a village school in Nepal was a freaking piece of cake compared to teaching in my native land.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#94. The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

Ziggy Marley

#95. Our current Western cultural plausibility structure elevates science and scorns and mocks religion, especially Christian teaching. As a result, believers in Western cultures do not as readily believe the supernatural worldview of the Bible in comparison with their Third World brothers and sisters.

J.P. Moreland

#96. In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

Nancy Gibbs

#97. I was thinking this was a great teaching moment, where they'd finally come to see that even something teeny-tiny can be big enough.

Dee Williams

#98. I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

Whitney Houston

#99. With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop.

Stephen Boss

#100. That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.

Susan Sarandon