Teaching Quotes - Page 23

• It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.

  Irving Townsend

  Cat, Rosebuds

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• The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Teacher, Children, Past

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• I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

  Angelina Jolie

  Teacher, Brother, Father

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• Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Example, Aids, Best Teaching

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• School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

  Ivan Illich

  Education, School, Accepting

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

  William Godwin

  Men, Thinking, Errors

  William Godwin, Luke White (bookseller.) (1793). “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness”, p.375

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• We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Running, Mad, World

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• I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

  Jane Goodall

  Teacher, Animal, Wonderful

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• To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.

  William Osler

  Teacher, School, Medicine

  Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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• He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Church, Doe, Habit

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• Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers

  Geronimo

  Father, Believe, Men

  Geronimo (2010). “My Life: The Autobiography of Geronimo”, p.153, Fireship Press

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• You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Family, Children, Responsibility

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• By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

  Robert Genn

  Photography, Danger, Turns

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• I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

  Forest Whitaker

  Teacher, Art, School

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• The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Inspiring, Confidence

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon - all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beauty, Education, Stress

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.94

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• Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

  Will Rogers

  Science, Monkeys, Example

  In 'Saturday Review' 25 August 1962 'A Rogers Thesaurus'

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• Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Success, Learning, Technology

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is taught that animals have no rights that we are bound to respect, and were only made for man, to be petted, spoiled, slaughtered or enslaved.

  John Muir

  School, Mean, Animal

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.56, Library of America

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• The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man. . .

  Luther Burbank

  Brother, Nature, Philosophy

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• Public opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the Federal Government, that neither shall assume the exercise of powers entrusted by the Constitution to the other.

  James K. Polk

  Exercise, Government, Office

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• Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members

  Harold B. Lee

  Home, Church, Missionary

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• Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!

  Brigham Young

  Sweet, Children, Eye

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• The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.

  William Osler

  School, Character, Today

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.121, Ravenio Books

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• I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.

  Walt Disney

  Organization, Want, Film

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