Teaching Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Education, Men, Thinking

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.9, Book Tree

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• Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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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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• 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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• Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Order, Jail, Would Be

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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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• I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, School, Kids

  "P. Diddy - Likely Wrong Choice for Howard U. Commencement Address" by Morris W. O’Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2014.

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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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• Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

  Max Planck

  Jesus, All Time, Theologian

  "The Dilemmas of an Upright Man : Max Planck As Spokesman for German Science". Book by John L. Heilbron, p. 67, 1986.

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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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• The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.

  William Osler

  Standards, Higher, Profession

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.195, ACP Press

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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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• I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.120, Library of Alexandria

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• Patriotism and loyalty in defense of the Constitution of the United States is constantly enjoined upon us. President McKay again this morning has made reference to the cause of liberty in his remarks. To be effective in such teaching, we must begin by inspiring in each heart the faith that the Constitution of the United States was written by inspired men whom God raised up for that very purpose.

  Harold B. Lee

  Loyalty, Morning, Heart

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• But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Teacher, Mean

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, School, Training

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.7, Best Books on

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• I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

  Princess Margaret

  Christian, Church, Groups

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

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• Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Enlightened, Feels

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• The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind there is a different aggregate of self to be explored.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Self, Mind

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• In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Secret, Enlightenment

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