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Quotes About Teaching

The LOVE of God is a favorite topic, but it is also one of the most abused and distorted Christian teaching.
~ Unknown
The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
~ Unknown
Consequences of breaking the rules should fit the rule broken and should have the aim of teaching her the repercussions of antisocial behavior; they should not have the aim of being punitive.
~ Unknown
I dare say, in the vast majority of cases, it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, it was blows that brought out their inner fire more than praise.
~ Vivekananda
since fantasy play is the glue that binds together all other pursuits, including the early teaching of reading and writing skills, I am compelled to put it on display as clearly as I can.
~ Unknown
Learning suits youth, the pleasure of teaching--old age.
~ Unknown
In almost all textbooks, even the best, this principle is presented so that it is impossible to understand.' (K. Jacobi, Lectures on Dynamics, 1842-1843). I have not chosen to break with tradition.
~ Unknown
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
~ Voltaire
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
~ Voltaire
How teachers are evaluated will most certainly alter how teachers teach.
~ Unknown
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.
~ W. C. Sellar
necessity gave them inspiration to action...experience gave them know-how...and I taught them the necessary knowledge.
~ W. Clement Stone
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Definition of a College professor: someone who talks in other people's sleep.
~ W. H. Auden
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
~ W. H. Auden
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
~ W. H. Auden
The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.
~ W. H. Auden
Theory and practice may not coincide. A Sikh girl may find her life restricted more than her brother's even though Sikh teaching is one of gender equality.
~ Unknown
Not assuming you already know is a powerful principle of focus. One
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
For the teacher or coach, the question has to be how to give instructions in such a way as to help the natural learning process of the student and not interfere with it.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
As you always taught me, men who think have proven to be the most dangerous of all over the course of history," I said. "So have you been a dangerous man?"" I laughed. "I would like to think so.
~ Unknown
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
~ W.H. Auden
In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise
~ W.H. Auden
But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?
~ N. T. Wright