Teaching Adults Quotes

#1. I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

Matt Drudge

#3. As human beings, what we can do is extend help in whatever way possible.

Nita Ambani

#4. The world is a dangerous place, but there is no better world. Remember, every one of us is responsible to make it a joyful place.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week class for older adults), and I don't really know what my teaching style is yet.

Mary J. Miller

#6. The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

Jodi Picoult

#7. Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

Martin Freeman

#8. Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.

Samuel Butler

#9. 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

#10. I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

Joyce Meyer

#11. For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands.

Nancy Atwell

#12. And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.

E. Lockhart

#13. Somebody told me that you got a boyfriend and i don't know what to do with myself ...

Me

#14. The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Carl Rogers

#15. To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

Bill Crawford

#16. People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.

B. J. Fogg

#17. He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

Oliver Goldsmith

#18. Her silence wasn't unpleasant, not did it imply resentment or sadness. It was transparent, not dense. It took up almost no space.

Roberto Bolano

#19. [...]when everybody starts laughing at Ra's old hair and senility he gets real pissed and when you are a god and you are real pissed there is only one solution, my friends: GENOCIDE.

Cory O'Brien

#20. It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.

Jerome Bruner

#21. A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child's attention field.

Frederick Lenz

#22. When I was younger, I use to laugh at my mom when she was silly. Now that I'm older, I find myself just as silly as her. Thanks mom, for teaching us that even as adults, it's OK to be fun and enjoy life laughing. I now get to teach my nephews and stepdaughter the same thing.

April Mae Monterrosa

#23. Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

Keith Johnstone

#24. By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.

Cheryl Richardson

#25. She was the most beautiful person he had ever seen. With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets.

Virginia Woolf

#26. I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

Mike Tyson

#27. Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal; it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.

Tom Peters

#28. In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

Charles J. Shields