Teaching Quotes - Page 18

• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.

  John Lyly

  Young

  John Lyly (1868). “Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Editio princeps, 1579. Euphues and his England. Editio princeps, 1580. Collated with early subsequent editions ... Carefully edited by Edward Arber”, p.131

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Learning, Lessons, Life Is

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• I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Jobs, Book, Want

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• I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Writing, Blue

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• I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

  Dick Gephardt

  College, Class, Abortion

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• The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

  Helen Garner

  Art, Jobs, College

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• I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Mother, Father, Crazy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

  Alan Bradley

  Thinking, Together, Elements

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• I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Actors, Want, Littles

  "Giancarlo Esposito In Breaking Bad’s Fourth Season Premiere: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2011.

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• History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being left out which most marks the spirit and life of the person. My own thesis is complementary: science taught ... without a sense of history is robbed of those very qualities that make it worth teaching to the student of the humanities and the social sciences.

  I. Bernard Cohen

  Life, Eye, Science

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• The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Rome, Political

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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• I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Mother, Practice, People

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• The more I live, the more I recognize that the teaching moments in my youth, especially those provided by my parents, have shaped my life and made me who I am. It is impossible to overestimate the influence of parents who understand the hearts of their children.

  Robert D. Hales

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

  Colin Firth

  People, Grandparent, Way

  "Colin Firth: a man of sense and sensibility" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2010.

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• I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Apology, Thinking

  "Rome Interview: Peter Greenaway On ‘Goltzius And The Pelican Company,’ Sergei Eisenstein, 3D & The Future Of Cinema" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Country, Oath Of Office, Leader

  "Tulsi Gabbard, First Hindu In Congress, Uses Bhagavad Gita At Swearing-In" By Jaweed Kaleem, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2013.

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• When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?

  Marya Hornbacher

  Writing, Creative Nonfiction, People

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• Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

  Bonnie Hunt

  Thinking, People, Today

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Writing, Everyday, Trying

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• I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Writing, Mean, Numbers

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• I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.

  William Hung

  Enjoy

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• Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

  Max Irons

  Car, Parent, Advice

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