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• Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

  George Tenet

  Kids, Responsibility, Tough Questions

  TIME Interview, content.time.com. April 29, 2007.

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• I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

  Ike Turner

  Two, Guy, Band

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• I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

  Ike Turner

  Artist, People, Singers

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• My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

  Judy Woodruff

  School, Years, Cities

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• When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me.

  Lawrence Wright

  Two, Egypt, Years

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• It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

  Adam Yauch

  Real, Buddhism, Organization

  "Sometimes, you just gotta' shut down". Interview With Amy Green, www.salon.com. 1995.

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• ... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

  Paulo Freire

  Reading, Learning, Memorization

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Use

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• There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

  Plato

  Children, Exercise, Play

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• Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them.

  Henri Poincare

  Long, Important, Matter

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• I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

  Isadore Singer

  Teacher, School, World

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Real, Independent

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• Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.

  Russell E. Train

  Religious, West, Environment

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• May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Happiness, Christmas, Laughter

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• Life continually teaches. We eventually catch on.

  Douglas Pagels

  Teach

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• Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Christian, Men, Needs

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• Those who have no mental vigilance,
  Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate,
  With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug,
  Their learning will not settle in their memories.

  Shantideva

  Wisdom, Memories, Water

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• If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity of your hearers, you make the Logos flesh. Conversely, if you elucidate mystical theology by means of the higher forms of contemplation you make the Logos spirit.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Mean, Example

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• Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh, guide our souls to Christ (cf. Gal. 3:24), so the glorified incarnate Logos of God is Himself a harbinger of His spiritual advent, leading our souls forward by His own teachings to receive His divine and manifest advent. He does this ceaselessly, by means of the virtues converting those found worthy from the flesh to the spirit. And He will do it at the end of the age, making manifest what has hitherto been hidden from men.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Mean

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• The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

  Maya Lin

  Artist

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Other Cultures, Doe, Mature

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• Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in fruitful debate. The lively narratives, based on the author's experiences of working with various groups interested in using philosophical tools to clarify their thought and action, will engage a wide range of readers.

  Gary Gutting

  Plato, Philosophical, Thinking

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• MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.

  Sam Wineburg

  Integrity, Writing, Thinking

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• Here, then, is a simple rule of thumb for all of us to apply: If the words of Jesus challenge something I believe or challenge the way I live, the problem is not with Jesus. The problem is with me. Charles Spurgeon expressed this in broader, scriptural terms when he said, “If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.”31

  Michael L. Brown

  Jesus, Believe, Simple

  Michael L. Brown (2014). “Hyper-Grace”, p.218, Charisma Media

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• I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.

  Simon Helberg

  Kitchen, Ignorant, Trying

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

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