Top 1200 Life Teaching Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code. Teaching young people to code early on can help build skills and confidence and energize the classroom with learning-by-doing opportunities. I learned how to fly a hot air balloon when I was 30,000 feet up and my life was in the balance: you can learn skills at any age but why wait when we can teach everyone to code now!

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

I grew up being an artist, but also rock-climbing and traveling the world and teaching my kids.

Life is a song-sing it. Life is a game-play it. Life is a challenge-meet it. Life is a dream-realize it. Life is a sacrifice-offer it. Life is love-enjoy it.

I believe that teaching is one of the most noble professions and it's no easy task to shape the minds of the next generation.

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

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

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.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

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

I like Christianity. I'm a fan of Jesus and his whole philosophy but not the social teaching aspects of it, of course.

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

One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching.

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

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

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

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?

We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

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.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

I love working with kids and helping others, so I feel like a career in teaching would be perfect.

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

If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name's ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own.

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'

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.'

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

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

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

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

The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.

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.

There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.

The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.

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.

In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she's here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream.

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

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

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

I loved teaching and directing choral activities at BYU, but nothing surpasses working with the MTC musicians.

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

I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.

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.