Top 1200 Good Teaching Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them ... Is it good or bad for the Democrats? Is it good or bad for the Republicans? Is it good or bad for Jews, or good or bad for blacks, or is it good or bad for women? Is it good or bad for men? Is it good or bad for gays? That's the way people think about issues today. There is very little discussion of enduring principles.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.

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

When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.

That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ?rose from the dead.

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

I expect a zombie to show up on Sesame Street soon, teaching kids to count.

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues.

I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.

I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some good writing, Alive and exciting, To contemplate all by myself. I need a good novel, I need a good read. I probably need Two or three. I need a good tale Of love and betrayal Or perhaps an adventure at sea. I need a good saga. I need a good yarn. A momentous and mightily Or slight one. But with thousands and thousands And thousands of books, I need someone to tell me The right one. -John Lithgow

When you're a good person, good things happen to you. You shouldn't be a good person with the expectation of therefore deserving good things, but in its purest form, I believe when you do good, good comes back to you.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.

I literally remember going in my backyard and my dad teaching me Paul Westphal moves.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

Teaching money management is a practical tool that will help shape kids' futures.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.

The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.

I started teaching when I was in my 20s because Lee Strasberg asked me to, and he didn't do that with a lot of people.

If you are teaching your child to be content with a participation award, then you already failed at life.

It has to start from the playground and parents teaching kids that diversity is what makes us so wonderful.

We all want the Greek people to prosper, to be able to provide a good life for their families and their children. That would be good for Greece, that would be good for the European Union, good for the United States, and ultimately, good for the world.

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

I've done admin work, preaching and teaching, youth ministry, marital counseling, etc.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

The weekend is all about teaching the children life skills and getting them out in all weathers.

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.

My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.

I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.

If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri