Teaching Quotes - Page 36

• Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

  May Sarton

  Needs, Way, Honest

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.21, Open Road Media

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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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• Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Men, Lessons

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.110, Algonquin Books

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Children, Illustration, Capacity

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• Teach by teaching, not by correcting

  Maria Montessori

  Teach, Correcting

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• I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Unique, Thinking

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• Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death , and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching. So did his indifference to heat and cold, his plainness in matters of food and dress, and his complete independence of all bodily comforts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Attitude, Independence, Comfort

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

  John Dewey

  May, Commodity, Selling

  John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.140, SIU Press

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• I believe in taking care of myself and teaching other people who want to learn. I don't believe in just printing money and giving money. I'm willing to teach those who are willing to learn. If you're not willing to learn, then go vote for Obama. I'm not Republican or Democrat, so don't get me wrong.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Believe, Printing Money, Giving Money

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• Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Gains, Erring

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good-natured man. She stoops to conquer; or, the Mistakes of a night. An oratorio. Prefaces. [Criticisms”, p.67

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• I don't know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I'd like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Pneumonia, Ideas, Want

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• For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

  Edmund Burke

  Barren, Investigation, Method

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.3

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• The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912). “A Montessori Mother”

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• Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.

  Izumi Shikibu

  Heart, Voice, Meditation

  Izumi Shikibu, “Although I Try”

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• Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Thinking, Good Man

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.6

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• The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

  Horace Mann

  Training, Example, Honest

  Horace Mann (1857). “Demands of the Age on Colleges”, p.46

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• Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Spiritual, Symbols, Spiritual Teaching

  Mary Baker Eddy (1958). “The Christian Science Journal”

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