Top 1200 Life Teaching Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

When I jumped in a go-kart at three or four, with my friends, I was super fast without anyone really teaching me.

It is possible for two people who have wide differences of preference and opinion, of habits, of teaching, of training, of background and belief to enjoy the company of each other in many ways. Indeed, a diversity of friendships is one of life's real enrichments. To learn of the goodness of those who are unlike-their worth, their sincerity, their good hearts, their good minds, their good company-is rich and rewarding. It is wonderful to have a wide range of choice friends who can be counted on, friends who can be enjoyed and loved and trusted. Such is the meaning of friendship.

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.

Every day, whether I am teaching or entertaining - I absolutely love bringing different people and cultures together.

My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.

I do three things: speaking or teaching, which I enjoy the most, coaching is where I learn everything, and writing is where I reach people.

Teaching university students affords me the opportunity to demonstrate to young adults that they don't have to be perfect to make contributions to their country.

I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

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.

The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

Not that I did not have any other skills, but I loved teaching students, sharing with them my knowledge in sciences, maths or languages.

A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people - irritating as they are.

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!

I don't like to use a microphone around my head while I'm teaching so I had to learn how to project from my stomach more.

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.

I'm raising three children. I'm teaching my kids what it means, the Golden Rule, to treat people like you want to be treated.

Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)

I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.

Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

I think corporal punishment is the shortest, most impatient, flawed way of teaching or making a child understand something.

'The Secret' is sorta teaching me how to think positively, try to take the negative thoughts out of of my brain.

Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.

Losing the Super Bowl, it's awful, I don't wish that on anyone, unless I'm playing them, but I think it definitely was a teaching moment.

If it's one thing my parents did right, it was teaching me to have a good work ethic, and I plan on doing the same with my kids!

To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.