Teaching Quotes - Page 29

• I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

  Jane Goodall

  Teacher, Animal, Wonderful

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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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• 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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• Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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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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• A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Horse, Leaving, Pace

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• Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teacher, Trying, Adults

  "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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• If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Males, Dominant

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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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• 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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• 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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• When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, West, Hunger

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

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Example, Aids, Best Teaching

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• Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Jesus, Heart, Home

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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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• 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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• The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.

  George Grosz

  Art, Engineering, Drawing

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• The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Rome, Political

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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