Teaching Quotes - Page 28

• The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.

  Lin Yutang

  Christian, Wise, People

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• The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Thinking, Achievement

  Robertson Davies (1993). “Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast”, p.8, Dundurn

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• If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Marketing, Commodity

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.253, Shambhala Publications

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• That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

  Jane Addams

  May, Righteous, Simulate

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.203, Hayes Barton Press

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• I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

  Jane Addams

  Believe, Mold, May

  Jane Addams (2016). “Twenty Years at Hull House”, p.237, Open Road Media

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• I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun

  Jon Anderson

  Hands, Play, Forever

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• For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Lonely, Taken, Men

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• Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

  George Arnold

  Love, Earth, Taught

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.55

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• Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran, which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, the Tao-te-king of Laotze, the Kings of Confucius, the Veda and the Avesta.

  Max Muller

  Buddhist, Kings, Book

  "The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller" edited by Georgina Müller, Vol. II, Ch. XXXII, 1902.

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• A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.

  Orville Dewey

  Mean, Loss, Men

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• I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different. The film makes pretty clear that quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.

  Jennifer Beals

  Spiritual, Thinking, Different

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2007.

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• It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.

  Robert Frost

  Taken, Facts, Moments

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

  Martin Luther

  Doe, May, Accepting

  "Luther's Works, Volume 39: Church and Ministry I" by by Helmut T. Lehman, edited by Eric W. Gritsch, Augsburg Fortress Press, (p. 249), 1986.

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• The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

  Margaret Mead

  Learning, Teach, Ability

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.44, Transaction Publishers

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• In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.

  Margaret Mead

  Teacher, Adults, Groups

  "An Anthropologist Looks at the Teacher's Role". Educational Method, Vol 21, p. 219-223, 1942.

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• Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

  Isaac Asimov

  Details, Would Be, Made

  "The Dangerous Myth of Creationism". "Penthouse" Magazine, January 1982.

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• Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Life, Regret, Long

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.135, Lotus Press

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• Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.

  Plutarch

  Strong, Son, Drawing

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1874). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.190

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• A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Teacher, Levels, May

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 43e), 1980.

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• If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of style, but not about its becoming false. We will go on teaching Maxwellian electrodynamics as long as there are scientists.

  Steven Weinberg

  Long, Worry, Style

  Steven Weinberg (2003). “Facing Up”, p.198, Harvard University Press

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• Christ's divinity accounts for His exaltation to the right hand of God, justifies the worship of angels and the confidence of mankind. It makes clear His right to the throne of the universe, and enables the mind to understand why He is exalted in providence, in grace, and in judgment. It is the unifying truth that harmonizes all other teachings of Christianity, and renders the entire system symmetrical and complete.

  George C. Lorimer

  Angel, Hands, Grace

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 57), 1895.

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• Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Confused, Greatness, Training

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.59, Penguin

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• Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting - the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting.

  Paul Cezanne

  Drawing, People, Together

  "Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations". Book by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 124, in: 'What I know or have seen of his life', 1991.

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• Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

  Northrop Frye

  Literature, Impossible, Difficult

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.313, Dundurn

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• We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.

  Henry Kirke White

  Children, Opportunity, Knowing

  Letter his White's aunt, January 6, 1800.

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