Top 28 Teaching Adults Quotes
#1. 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
#2. In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
Charles J. Shields
#3. 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
#4. I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
Mike Tyson
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. [...]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
#12. 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
#13. He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
Oliver Goldsmith
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Somebody told me that you got a boyfriend and i don't know what to do with myself ...
Me
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
Martin Freeman
#24. The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
Jodi Picoult
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. As human beings, what we can do is extend help in whatever way possible.
Nita Ambani
#28. 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
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