Quotes About Teaching

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.

Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.

Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

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

Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

I love teaching.

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

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

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.

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

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.