Teaching Quotes - Page 35

• Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Mother, Teacher, Husband

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Strong, War, Men

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.15, University of Toronto Press

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• Example is better than precept.

  Margaret Halsey

  Learning, Example

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

  Margaret Drabble

  Book, People, Grows

  Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

  Audre Lorde

  Matter, Reach Out, Therapy

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.

  Dora Russell

  Religious, Sex, Instinct

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• Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power, but of His mercy. They were throughout moral in their character, and spiritual in the ends contemplated by them. They were in fact embodiments of His whole character; exemplars of His whole teaching, emblems of His whole mission.

  James McCosh

  Spiritual, Character, Miracle

  James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics, Delivered in New York, Jan. 16 to March 20, 1871, on the "Ely Foundation" of the Union Theological Seminary”, p.290

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• Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

  Winifred Holtby

  Teacher, Government, Evil

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• Disciple making also involves teaching people to obey all that Christ has commanded us. Now some might say, "Isn't that what preachers are supposed to do?" And in one sense, the answer to this question is yes. God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally. At the same time, he has commanded every follower of Jesus to teach his Word relationally.

  David Platt

  Jesus, People, Church

  David Platt (2013). “What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?”, p.46, Tyndale House

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• I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now ... innovation and creativity are necessary.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Creativity, Organization, Innovation

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• But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Jesus, Educational, Home

  Anna Howard Shaw (1960). “The Speeches of Anna Howard Shaw”

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• Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Race, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (1906). “A Square Deal”

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• When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Answers, World

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• Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

  Adyashanti

  Teacher, Time, Silence

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• uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted. ... they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.

  Gwen Bristow

  Taken, Ideas, Law

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• According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don't understand yourself, you're uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you're anxious, Buddha's teaching is to practice being patient with it.

  Reb Anderson

  Practice, Normal, Scared

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• Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves.

  Jean Smith

  Practice, Support, Structure

  Jean Smith (2007). “The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism”, p.3, Harmony

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• The process of education is not generally a process of teaching people to think and ask questions. It ... is mostly one of teaching the young what is and getting them into a mood where they will go on keeping it that way.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Change, Thinking, People

  Elizabeth Hawes (1939). “Men can take it”

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• The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Hate, School, Media

  Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.

  Dwight Garner

  Soccer, Book, Class

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• God will forgive you if you forgive others. Forgiving those who cause offence or injury is often exceedingly difficult. And yet, forgiveness is one of the most beautiful and important teachings of Jesus Christ. It is central to the gospel because, without it, you can't go to heaven.

  Patrick Madrid

  Beautiful, Jesus, Heaven

  Patrick Madrid (2012). “A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.21, TAN Books

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• At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Writing, Class, Fiction

  "True voice brings 'True Detective' to life". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. January 22, 2014.

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• For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Sight, Focus, Acting

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• Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I can go days without talking to another human being unless it's my mother, especially when I'm not teaching or on break.

  Roxane Gay

  Mother, Loneliness, Talking

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Teacher, Writing, Pay

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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