Top 100 Teaching Is Quotes
#1. Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.
Robert B. Parker
#2. Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership.
Andreas Schleicher
#3. Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Josef Albers
#4. Teaching is a funny business; you want to share these glimpses of something real and profound, but half the time students want only to know their next assignment and what they will need to study for the test.
Azar Nafisi
#5. Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.
Erin Gruwell
#6. The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
Ronald Fisher
#7. The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.
Clive James
#8. Teaching is the most powerful force that changes our world one student at a time.
Debasish Mridha
#9. The educational process must again provide the opportunity for students to make choices and live with the consequences of these choices. Teaching is not simply telling people what to believe and do.
Donovan L. Graham
#10. If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve. But if the power of spiritual teaching is already at work, then a minor event can dissolve the ego.
Eckhart Tolle
#12. If teaching is largely about faculty-student interaction, then we have to recognize that human interaction is changing.
Jose Antonio Bowen
#13. Teaching is very important. The nature of your personality isn't that important. Lombardi was very extraverted, very bombastic. Landry very quiet, reserved. Both were great teachers and great coaches.
Marv Levy
#14. My teaching is not for self-control, self-discipline. My teaching is for self-awareness, self-transformation.
Osho
#15. Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
Michael Gove
#16. More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
Bertrand Russell
#17. I've always thought that good teaching is about illumination. Sure, we teach things kids might not know, but a lot of the time, we're just shedding light on the stuff they already know.
R.J. Palacio
#18. A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.
Eckhart Tolle
#19. If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.
Laurieann Gibson
#20. Smartass Disciple: Master, that guy's teaching is somehow annoying me.
Master of Stupidity: Only as long as you stay tuned for pissed-off channel.
Toba Beta
#21. I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills ... and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.
Vijay Seshadri
#22. The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. At Eton boys are woken at 5 a.m.; lessons begin at 6 a.m. and go on to 8 p.m. Teaching is generally in Latin and is a matter of learning by rote,
Ian Mortimer
#25. Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.
Andy Hargreaves
#26. I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be taught in and out of the Church and that such teaching is part of the sifting process of mortality
Bruce R. McConkie
#27. There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.
Shunryu Suzuki
#28. The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
Paul Wellstone
#29. What immersion has taught us is that comprehensible subject-matter teaching is language teaching - the subject matter class is a language class if it is made comprehensible. In fact, the subject-matter class may even be better than the language class for language acquisition.
Stephen D. Krashen
#30. In the middle of my fourth year teaching is when I got my book contract - in 2010. I knew the book would come out in May 2011.
John Corey Whaley
#31. Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#34. Learning is intelligence.
Knowing is understanding.
Practicing is wisdom.
Teaching is virtue.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#35. Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
Ken Robinson
#36. Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.
Jerome Bruner
#37. To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
Gautama Buddha
#38. My rule in relation to time management and teaching is simple: "If you're on time, you're late!" That means that if you arrive just on time to teach, you have no flexibility. In essence nothing can go wrong, and in addition to that, your mind probably won't settle until halfway through the class.
Gudjon Bergmann
#39. Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
Andy Hargreaves
#40. Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.
Alice Moore Hubbard
#42. Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.
Gautama Buddha
#43. The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.
Stephen R. Covey
#44. Parental teaching is a natural duty
who so fit to look to the child's well being as those who are the authors of his actual being? To neglect the instruction of our offspring is worse than brutish. Family religion is necessary for the nation, for the family itself, and for the church of God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#45. Who should we trust to say what teaching is, and how does this play out in schools? How can we even begin to transform education policy or practice unless we all understand what teaching really means?
Vanessa Rodriguez
#46. The goal of teaching is learning, not teaching.
Hugo Rossi
#47. I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.
Jesse Stuart
#49. To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible's teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn't have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense?
Timothy Keller
#50. Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting - it's exciting to be in that dialogue.
Bill Ayers
#51. Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.
Gordon Korman
#52. The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.
David McCord
#53. The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
Sri Aurobindo
#54. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Paulo Coelho
#55. My mission today is to go forth and tell people about why I follow Christ and also what the Bible teaches, and part of that teaching is that women and men are meant to be together.
Phil Robertson
#56. The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#57. What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#59. Teaching is different today. Teachers don't just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What we're ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves.
Tony Danza
#60. My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#61. Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.
Saul Gorn
#62. Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#63. One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.
John Barth
#64. Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere ... We should forget all about some particular teaching; we should not ask which is good or bad. There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment, in every existence. That is the true teaching.
Shunryu Suzuki
#65. ...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
Steve Martin
#66. The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.
Paulo Freire
#67. Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.
Margaret E. Knight
#68. The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
Joyce Cary
#69. Aristotle insists that habituation, not teaching, is the route to moral virtue (II. 1). We must practise doing good actions, not just read about virtue.
Aristotle.
#70. The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.
Jonathan Kozol
#71. Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.
Andy Hargreaves
#72. Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.
Paul Q. Hirst
#73. Where the teaching is corrupt or is despised, there is no religion approved by God.
John Calvin
#74. Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.
Mark Twain
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Teaching is not about how we see things, it is about how children see things.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#78. Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.
Keith Best
#80. All true education is the drawing out from the student what is already there. Teaching is never about helping others to learn but about helping them to remember. All learning is remembering. All teaching is reminding. All lessons are memories, recaptured.
Neale Donald Walsch
#81. The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.
Sharon Olds
#82. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
#83. The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
Mike Krzyzewski
#85. Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members
Harold B. Lee
#86. The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
Dallas Willard
#87. The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.
Rabindranath Tagore
#89. When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.
Dana Goldstein
#91. Teaching is a gift for both the recipient and the teacher.
Ed Coet
#92. If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students?
Paul Lockhart
#93. The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy
angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.
Jeannette Walls
#94. The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.
Robert Grudin
#95. It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.
Page Smith
#96. If children really want to learn something, and have the opportunity to learn it in use, they do so even if the teaching is poor. For example many learn difficult video games with no professional teaching at all!
Seymour Papert
#98. Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.
Marilynne Robinson
#99. Teaching is a Creative profession, it is our duty as School Leaders and Education Influencers to offer the right climate to foster innovation and support Innovative Teaching practices within our schools, and that's what will make our students succeed in the 21st century
Samer Chidiac
#100. School does a great job of teaching students to do what we set out to teach them. It works. The problem is that what we're teaching is the wrong stuff. Here
Seth Godin
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