Quotes About Teaching

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

Getting people to welcome feedback was the hardest thing I ever had to do as an educator.

I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

Temelji. To je bilo ono što nam je poklonio trener Graham. Temelji, temelji, temelji. Kao profesor uvidio sam da ovu lekciju mnogi preska?u, naj?eš?e na vlastitu štetu. Uvijek se moraju postaviti temelji, jer onaj zanimljivi i zabavni dio bez njih ne?e funkcionirati.

The second kind of head fake is the really important one—the one that teaches people things they don't realize they're learning until well into the process.

A professor's job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

A professor's job is to teach students how to see their minds growing

I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.

If you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable !

I basically forgot that God called me to make disciples, not just converts.

Et comment instruirait-il les enfants qu'il a devant lui, l'éducateur qui n'est même plus capable de redevenir enfant en renaissant chaque jour à lui-même? Celui qui porte dans son cœur le cadavre de son enfance n'éduquera jamais que des âmes mortes.

It's worth asking ourselves what skills are more commonly needed today. Games should be evolving towards teaching us those skills.

The definition of a good game is therefore "one that teaches everything it has to offer before the player stops playing.

That's what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.* Games teach you how aspects of reality work, how to understand yourself, how to understand the actions of others, and how to imagine.

They present us with models of real things — often highly abstracted. They are generally quantified or even quantized* models. They primarily teach us things that we can absorb into the unconscious, as opposed to things designed to be tackled by the conscious, logical mind. They mostly teach us things that are fairly primitive behaviors (but they don't have to).

(C)(P) POVERTY HAS TAUGHT ME THE MANY WAYS TO CULTIVATE PATIENCE IN DEALING WITH ADVERSITY AND UNCERTAINTY. I TRY TO PASS THIS ON TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE, BUT THEY CHOOSE TO REMAIN IGNORANT OF SUCH LIFE SAVING VIRTUES.

**(C)(P) BOOK- IN THE PASSAGE OF TIME-LOSING YOUR LOVED ONES-TEACHES ME THIS TRUTH:- WITH MUCH WISDOM COMES SORROW. SORROW MAKES ONE ASK-WHAT ARE WE TOILING FOR? WHY WORRY? I KNOW THAT I MAY SAVE OTHERS, BUT MYSELF I CANNOT SAVE. JAH IS MY ROCK!

Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Instead of teaching doctrines and developing theories, Wittgenstein came to think, a philosopher should demonstrate a technique, a method of achieving clarity.

Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.

The disciples had been taught the Old Testament Scriptures their entire lives. They had followed Jesus Himself for three years. But only when He opened their minds did they begin to understand. Only when the risen Christ gave them eyes to see did they begin to recognize the shadow of the New Covenant in the Old, and to view the Old Covenant in the light of the New.

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me.