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Quotes About Teaching

There is no better time than now to rededicate yourself to the principles taught by Jesus, and to teach your children about Him too!
~ Soraya Diase Coffelt
The most important legacy you will ever leave is your vision planted in the minds of your disciples and a passion as strong as a storm in their hearts.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Smartass Disciple: Master, we should not spend our time to low life like them.Master of Stupidity: If I don't, then how should I lead men like you to be wiser?
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
We need time so to can explain the stuff in easy way.
~ Deyth Banger, 4 Hours
I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.
~ Johann Lamont
As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.
~ Philip Schultz
My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.
~ Michael Bennet
Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one
~ Mike Krzyzewski
It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.
~ Jean Houston
As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.
~ Parker J. Palmer
Luciano is me even dierbaar als mijn eigen kind... Ik wil dat je hem alles leert wat je hem leren kunt. En zorg dat hij niet vermoord wordt. - Rodolfo
~ Mary Hoffman
Thus the great ones (my great ones, who may not be the same as your great ones) have taught me -- to observe with passion, to think with patience, to live always care-ingly.
~ Mary Oliver
Whatever can't be taught, there is a great deal that can, and must, be learned.
~ Mary Oliver
To enjoy, to question—never to assume, or trample. Thus the great ones (my great ones, who may not be the same as your great ones) have taught me—to observe with passion, to think with patience, to live always care-ingly.
~ Mary Oliver
Thus the great ones (my great ones, who may not be the same as your great ones) have taught me - to observe with passion, to think with patience, to live always caringly.
~ Mary Oliver
The question then becomes, was it necessary, once the likes of Vesalius had pretty much figured out the basics, for every student of anatomy to get right in there and figure them out all over again? Why couldn't models and preserved prosections be used to teach anatomy? Do gross anatomy labs reinvent the wheel? The questions were especially relevant in Knox's day, given the way in which bodies were procured, but they are still relevant today.
~ Mary Roach
changes in the teaching of anatomy have nothing to do with cadaver shortages or public opinion about dissection; they have everything to do with time. Despite the immeasurable advances made in medicine over the past century, the material must be covered in the same number of years. Suffice it to say there's a lot less time for dissection than there was in Astley Cooper's day.
~ Mary Roach
I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.
~ Mary Rose O'Reilley
the routine of education in the schools of
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The master told his pupils, I will never ask you to bring me precious gifts but I will ask you to become worthy of receiving gifts.
~ Maryam Mafi
How do you tell a scribe from a prophet . . .? The prophets love the people they chastise.
~ Marylinne Robinson
My teacher taught me a ton of things. Some of t was invaluable, some of it was completely useless. Yours did too, right? Lots of things... countless things. We're on our way there there, too, you know? To their side. The side that leaves behind instead of inherits. It may be troublesome but its the way of the world
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Lectures, says Minerva's Stephen Kosslyn, are 'a great way to teach, but a terrible way to learn'.
~ Matt Ridley
Top–down language teaching just does not work well – it's like learning to ride a bicycle in theory, without ever getting on one.
~ Matt Ridley