Teaching Quotes - Page 36

• I am not a "Christian author." I am an author who is a Christian. While my books reflect my faith, they are not intended as teaching tools for a Christian audience per se. My books are stories created around principles that work for everyone and they work every time.

  Andy Andrews

  Christian, Book, Principles

  "Andy Andrews: Inspirational Speaker, Best Selling Author and Patriot". Interview with Bonnie Bartel Latino, billco-outdoors.blogspot.com. September 3, 2013.

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• I think Saudi Arabia often finances radical Islam and the teaching of hatred to the West and hatred of Americans. I think it is important that we know that. It's important that we know that there is a threat within and a threat without. I think we can stop it with more aggressive use of actual constitutional tools.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Hatred, Islam

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I learned from teaching. If you are perceived by the student to be belittling them or purely criticizing them without offering up words of encouragement and support, they shut down and discredit you.

  Tim Gunn

  Encouragement, Offering, Discredit You

  "Tim Gunn on ‘Project Runway,’ New Book, Current Fashion". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. October 26, 2010.

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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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• I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of work I do is pretty diverse: I can cast a play while doing a polish of a screenplay, while thinking about a new play and revising another. In other words, the kind of work that I do during my work day is not just writing, yet it is all part of the job of being a playwright.

  Donald Margulies

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

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• In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

  Gerhard E Frost

  Children, Ideas, Risk

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• Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

  Steve Perry

  Teacher, Art, Doctors

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• Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.

  Isocrates

  Cutting, Iron, Able

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• conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.

  Casey Miller

  Children, Use, World

  Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.8, iUniverse

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• Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.

  Joan Aiken

  Healing, Mean, Men

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• The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

  Anne Truitt

  Education, Teacher, Spring

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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• I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

  Anne Truitt

  Family, People, Realizing

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• He who honestly instructs reverences God.

  Nazr Mohammed

  Reverence, Honestly

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• But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths.

  Carl Eckart

  Writing, Errors, Causes

  Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

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• I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.

  Mau Piailug

  Men, Two, Bridges

  "Piailug's greatest lesson is that we are a single people". "Honolulu Star-Advertiser" Newspaper, July 29, 2010.

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• If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching is on us.

  Mitsuye Yamada

  Majority, Culture, Littles

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• Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

  Steve Martin

  Form, Shows, Show Business

  "Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life". Book by Steve Martin, November 20, 2007.

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• I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

  Tim Gunn

  Mean, Thinking, Discredit You

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• I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Discipline, Design

  "In Which Tim Gunn Tells Men to Watch 'Project Runway'" by Kurt Soller, www.esquire.com. July 26, 2011.

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• On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

  Tim Gunn

  Firsts, Classroom, Building

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• Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

  Horace

  Training, Braces, Intellect

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• Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Teacher, Atmosphere

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• All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Memories, Should Have, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.161

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• Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

  John Milton

  Teacher, Men, Bows

  John Milton (2013). “The Collected Prose Works of John Milton (Annotated Edition)”, p.328, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

  Donnie Yen

  Baseball, Football, Teenager

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