Teaching Quotes - Page 32

• "Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since it has often been used to blacken anyone with the slightest doubt about the teachings of religion.

  Jim Herrick

  Atheist, Doubt, Atheism

  Jim Herrick (1985). “Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists”

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• A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of mind the teaching will take place in non-verbal ways through direct experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mind, Balance

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• Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Dad, My Dad

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• There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated with Jesus. What were specifically Christian were some of the less enlightened teachings, which have done untold harm. Christians claim that organised Christianity has been a great force for good, but this view can be maintained on one assumption only: that everything good in the Christian era is a result of Christianity and everything bad happened in spite of it.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, War, Men

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• Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

  Pope Pius XII

  Atheism, Church, Doctrine

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• As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.

  Katha Pollitt

  Christian, Country, Years

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• I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We shouldn't be teaching creationism.' Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

  Eugenie Scott

  Mean, School, Atheism

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

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• Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious beliefs from contradiction by science. They used to do it by prohibiting teachers from teaching evolution at all; then they wanted to teach intelligent design as an alternative theory; now they want the supposed "weaknesses" in evolution pointed out. But it's all the same program - it's all an attempt to let religious ideas determine what is taught in science courses.

  Steven Weinberg

  Teacher, Religious, Intelligent

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• Obama wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot of money have a lot of money, because she's black. It was Oprah. No, it can't be. Yes, it is. There's a lot of guilt out there, show we're not racists, we'll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth.... If Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu or he'd be teaching Saul Alinsky constitutional law or lecturing on it in Chicago.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Weekend, Law

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• There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculate or encourage polygamy... And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Law, Land, Advice

  Wilford Woodruff, Reid Larkin Neilson, Jan Shipps (2011). “In the Whirlpool: The Pre-manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885-1890”, Arthur H Clark

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• I love teaching people how to handle their money and I've built a brand on that skill.

  Michelle Singletary

  Skills, People, Brands

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• I went to art school, but I didn't last because in those days you couldn't take comics as a course. And they weren't even teaching you to draw real things, they were really into abstracts, and I was not into abstracts, so art school and I did not work out.

  Trina Robbins

  Art, Real, School

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I suppose I might be a player-coach nowadays. I'm a great teacher, and I enjoy teaching. But I'm glad I got injured and ended up turning to cooking. It was an accident but the happiest one of my life.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Teacher, Player, Cooking

  Source: www.trademagazin.hu

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• I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would.

  Steve Wozniak

  Teacher, Kids, Wire

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things.

  Steve Wozniak

  Years, Skills, Experts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to supplement the income you get from writing novels. For a lot of writers, that involves teaching. In my case, so far, I've been able to get by working in Hollywood with this TV stuff I've been doing. And it's very important, because my wife is a writer, too, and we don't have health insurance through any employer.

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, Wife, Important

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2000.

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• Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

  Warren Farrell

  Art, Children, Writing

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• If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.

  George Hook

  Gone, Kidneys, Pope

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• The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.

  Huineng

  Past, Essence, Found

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• Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent upon conditions. That, precisely with the removal of these conditions, those things that have arisen in dependence upon them-thus also all suffering-must perforce disappear and cease to be.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Play, Suffering

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• I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Children, Careers, Decision

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• Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite them about what you're excited about; it's so rewarding, and it's so much fun.

  Shanola Hampton

  Fun, Able, Faces

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• He will be the best Christian who has Christ for his Master, and truly follows Him. Some are disciples of the church, others are disciples of the minister, and a third sort are disciples of their own thoughts; he is the wise man who sits at Jesus' feet and learns of Him, with the resolve to follow His teaching and imitate His example. He who tries to learn of Jesus Himself, taking the very words from the Lord's own lips, binding himself to believe whatsoever the Lord hath taught and to do whatsoever He hath commanded-he I say, is the stable Christian.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Wise, Jesus

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• Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

  Grace Llewellyn

  Kids, Littles, Scientist

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