Teaching Quotes - Page 34

• The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Hands, Names

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

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• After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled to drop everything and move. But I've been teaching for a long time. More than four decades.

  Joan Larkin

  Moving, Writing, Long

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

  Joan Larkin

  Grateful, Community, Care

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• The music was great for teaching about human nature. but I couldn't do any instruments or play anything. I like to sing. I'd rather sing than eat, but most people would rather hear me eat.

  Kevin Fitzgerald

  Play, People, Human Nature

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.

  Shawn Achor

  Powerful, Grateful, Two

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

  Aaron Belz

  Writing, Ideas, Focus

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.

  Ed Askew

  Art, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I had the vision of creating my own camp to make sure I was teaching the campers what I wanted. Plus I picked other players that were good on the field and off so we could be great role models for these girls to look up to. I hope to inspire others and encourage them to go after their dreams.

  Jennie Finch

  Girl, Dream, Player

  Interview with Art Eddy, manjr.com. May 20, 2013.

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• The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

  Marie Corelli

  Church, Lord, Divine

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.58, The Floating Press

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• Teaching is a performance art.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Performances, Performance Art

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• Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.

  Jules Michelet

  Children, Each Day, May

  Jules Michelet, G. H. Smith (1846). “The People”, p.20, New York : D. Appleton ; Philadelphia : G.S. Appleton ; Cincinnati : Derby, Bradley

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• It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

  Margaret Deland

  Genius, Useless, Deny

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• The school is the manufactory of humanity.

  John Amos Comenius

  School, Humanity

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• It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.

  Roger Ascham

  Wise, Horse, Children

  Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth”, p.206

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• Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Children, Reading

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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• Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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• Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, Easy, Working It

  Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

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• It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Two, Giving, Mind

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.7

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• It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from His character. The greatest triumph of the Gospel is Christ Himself--a human body become the organ of the Divine nature, and revealing, under the conditions of an earthly life, the glory of God.

  Horace Bushnell

  Character, Miracle, Triumph

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• An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be your own.

  Teresita Fernandez

  Artist, Self, Creative

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• The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.

  Dorothea Brande

  Party, Prejudice, Tendencies

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• teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Learning, Eye, Hands

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• One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.

  Delarivier Manley

  Pain, People, Deals

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• No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Mind, World, Belief

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• The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Teacher, Kids, America

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