Quotes About Teaching

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

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

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.

...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.

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

I've always felt my role in life was to be a mentor. If I can do that with a younger generation, that's my goal.

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.

Become aware that there are no accidents in our intelligent universe. Realize that everything that shows up in your life has something to teach you. Appreciate everyone and everything in your life.

Teaching has definitely become a big part of my life in the past ten plus years. As it often does for many dedicated players. Because you can have some great gigs.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

Likewise, Native American Hopi were traditionally taught by the Kachinas, spirit-like beings from other planets, who instructed them in agricultural techniques and gave them philosophical and moral guidelines that have shaped Hopi culture

I tried to show him things, but he didn't seem to study what I showed him. Usually, he just put whatever I handed him in his mouth. He would try to eat anything. I fed him Tabasco sauce and he yelled. Having a little brother helped me learn to relate to other people. Being a little brother, Snort learned to watch what he put in his mouth.

First, he taught me how to walk. Then, armed with sticks and dead snakes, he chased me and I learned how to run.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Crowley shook his head. "I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea having Halt train apprentices. He seems to teach them no respect for authority." "Oh, he teaches us to respect authority," Gilan said innocently. "He just teaches us to ignore it when necessary.