Top 1200 Great Teaching Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

I obviously would love to play with a great, great, great quarterback.

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

Dybala only lacks the belief that he is a great footballer. After his great experience at Palermo he had a great start with Juve and he did beautiful things.

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

I would prefer the teacher to focus on teaching and have a security officer worry about keeping the kids safe.

There are neural networks that can build whole apps from scratch - so why are we teaching high school kids to code?

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

I had a great job and I lost it, but I'm doing great now, I have a great family, my daughters all live with me. Did I have a setback? Absolutely, but I don't look at it like a ruined my life.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

Teaching girls to agitate over every problem implies that relationships, and people, can bend to our will.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium.

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.'

Phil Neville could be on the road to one day, maybe, becoming the England manager. I know him closely. He was a great captain, a great leader. He's had great experience.

Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.

Teaching is very fulfilling because every day I go home feeling like I helped people.

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over.

I learn from teaching. Having to break things down and explain them makes me a better dancer.

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching.

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

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.

I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one of these movies, there's a lot of great stuff, but one might not be not as good with the writing in this or the acting in that or the directing in that, this has great actors, great directors, great script, and I really feel like we're gonna make the best one [movie with Young Han Solo].

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

The Bar Association can do so much in teaching people how to resolve conflicts without knives and guns and fists.

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

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.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.