Teaching Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.

  William Devane

  Horse, Couple, Real

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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