Top 1200 Teaching Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.

There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.

The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.

I've done a bit of teaching, but I gave it up - I felt uneasy teaching illustration to people who hadn't yet learned to draw.

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, 'The Emperor's Children' would not exist. When I received the award, I was teaching, had one baby, and was pregnant with another. There was no time for writing.

I started teaching in '76 and I'd been a photographer at the Geographic for six years. But prior to being at the Geographic I was a teacher. Plus my parents were teachers and my brother and my grandparents. So it was the culture of our family to think about teaching, to talk about teaching, to talk about teachers.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

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.

The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.

Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

We have been teaching 'Paradise Lost' and 'Julius Caesar' to the students but we are not teaching them 'Kalidas' or Indian drama and epics.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.

I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.

I do a little of several things like writing, teaching and political organizing, but none of them as well as I would like.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted as a writer.

I see apostasy in many ways occurring in Evangelical churches that really aren't teaching the truth of God's word. I do believe that some churches have become entertainment centers and a teaching a type of prosperity Gospel rather than teaching God's word.

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence of training is causing another to do. Teaching gives knowledge. Training gives skill. Teaching fills the mind. Training shapes the habits. Teaching brings to the child that which he did not have before. Training enables a child to make use of that which is already his possession.

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

I wasn't good at the sciences; I wasn't a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So I thought that writing or teaching was what I wanted to do.

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.

Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.