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Quotes About Teaching

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.
~ Swami Vivekananda
It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.
~ Frank Sinatra
I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
~ Anne Hutchinson
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.
~ Justin Hartley
I started doing the nursery and then prepared 89 hours to teach 2 to 4-year- olds.nd during this time working in this church and going to a little country church, I met Randy [White].
~ Paula White
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.
~ Origen
Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.
~ Aeschylus
I'm trying to teach my girlfriend how to surf. But I just end up yelling at her the whole time. Because I don't know how to surf.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry.
~ Barry Neil Kaufman
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
~ Bill Gates
We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.
~ Charles E. Leiserson
I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.
~ Christopher Eccleston
I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
~ D. W. Griffith
The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.
~ Sharon Olds
We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
~ Thomas Cech
An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.
~ Ernest L. Boyer
If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.
~ Ewan McGregor
As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.
~ George Wald
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
~ Helen Dunmore
Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.
~ John Balguy
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.
~ Joseph Addison
Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.
~ Joel Edgerton
There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.
~ Erma Bombeck