Teaching Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach – he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father. Coach was always there for me whenever I needed him and I loved him for it. In teaching me the game of basketball, he taught me about life. My heart goes out to Linnea and their kids. We've lost a great man who had an incredible impact on his players, his staff and the entire UNC family.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Teacher, Father

  "Michael Jordan Refers To Dean Smith As His ‘Second Father’ In This Touching Statement" by Andrew Isaac, uproxx.com. February 08, 2015.

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• I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

  Stu Jackson

  Games, Competition, Coaching

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• My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Father, Way In Life, Ideas

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• What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.

  Donna Farhi

  Success, Buddhist, Philosophy

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Teacher, Learning, Political

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• Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.

  Paul Hauck

  Children, Self Esteem, Feelings

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• Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.

  Wheeler McMillen

  Education, School, Do It Yourself

  Wheeler McMillen (1964). “Possums, politicians and people”

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• Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Teacher, Retirement

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• I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.

  Zoroaster

  Heart, Men, Knowing

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• Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

  Guy Claxton

  Encouragement, Self, Expectations

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.340, A&C Black

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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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• My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

  Leopold Fechtner

  Teacher, Reading, Writing

  Leopold Fechtner “Encyclopedia of Ad-Libs, Crazy Jokes, Insults and Wisecracks”

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• I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Education, Strong, People

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• Churches provide a place of gathering for people who share common beliefs, support and encouragement for each other in faith, a place to find insight into and teaching about God's Word, and they provide a time and place where people can leave the world behind and focus only on their spiritual relationship with God.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• When it comes to training I do that through teaching.

  Ryron Gracie

  Art, Training, Martial Arts

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• Teaching high school, in addition to knowing one's subject matter thoroughly and being able to convey it to others, requires the grit of a long-distance runner, the stamina of a boxer going 15 rounds, the temperament of a juggler and the street smarts of a three-card monte dealer.

  Larry Cuban

  Smart, School, Mathematical

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• Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching penetrates into our hearts and souls, to continue its work inside, and we inhale the spirit of these books as healing or poisonous vapors. They can bring the greatest benefits and the greatest ruin, for from their ideas that they spread come the deeds of the future.

  Peter Prange

  Book, Healing, Heart

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• So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.

  Megyn Kelly

  Writing, Kids, Math

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm fortunate enough that every job I do seems to be, at the very least, teaching me something fantastic. I make new friends. I work with talented people. And each project and experience seems to be better than the last. I seem to be topping myself all the time. I think to myself: "It can't get better, it can't get better..." And then something happens that makes me feel like I'm truly richer for the experience.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Waitress - Nathan Fillion interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Live In The Present, Zen Life

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• My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teacher, Children, Ambition

  "Messenger to Mankind". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• [The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.

  Hal Borland

  Christmas, Simple, Men

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• The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mankind

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1858). “The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts”, p.163

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• We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Needs, Benefits

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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