Quotes About Teaching

Don't think that you must involve yourself with complex intellectual philosophies. Don't try to be profound or educated. That only wears you out. Just be simple. Let everyday life be your teacher.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Example is the best precept.

The best teacher is very interactive.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

Teaching people the best way to market organically with Facebook, is like teaching them the best way to butter bread, with a spoon.

Wow, " she said. "It's like you're teaching me something and being all wise.""You are not easy to get along with, " Skulduggery said.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

Those who can't take directions graciously have no business giving them

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

WHEN I TEACH, I begin with a compassionate aspiration. I express the wish that we will apply the teachings in our everyday lives and thus free ourselves and others from suffering.