Teaching Quotes - Page 38

• The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophical, Gita, Empires

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• Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.

  Walter Tevis

  Reading, Mean, Years

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• It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Kings, Plato, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.95, Routledge

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• I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.

  Ben Stein

  College, Class, Ideas

  The Onion Interview, www.avclub.com. January 27, 1999.

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• I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence. Once you buy into that, [...] then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Nice, Believe

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.

  Kevin Hart

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Kids, Generations

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Spiritual, Philosophy, School

  "Jennifer Lopez talks Shall We Dance?". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. October 13, 2004.

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• I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions?

  Dave Matthews

  Children, Kindness, Military

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].

  Richard Simmons

  Dream, Growing Up, School

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Religious, Men, Years

  "Confession". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Part 1, Chapter 1, 1882.

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• To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

  Michael Bennet

  Teacher, Jobs, People

  "Bring Teachers’ Pay Into This Century" by Sen. Michael Bennet, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2011.

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• I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

  Lydia Davis

  Students, Classroom, Difficult

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• A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

  Marianne Williamson

  Humility, Responsibility, Reflection

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• Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teacher, Children, Ignorance

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

  Tara Brach

  Strong, Book, Heart

  "Where Do We Find Peace and Freedom? An Interview With Tara Brach, Ph.D". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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• We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Athlete, Healthy, Needs

  "Dominique Moceanu Talks Body Image In Gymnastics, Says Coaches Can ‘Scar For Life’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2013.

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• 20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting, though still a tricky proposition, is much easier.

  Ken McCarthy

  Years, Fields, Bob

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• Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Dream, People, Relationships With Others

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• Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Stupid, Facts, Earth

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

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• The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.

  Clayton Christensen

  Past, Data, Support

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• The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

  Mike Lee

  Offering, Lessons, Trends

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• Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the inevitable direction the professionalization of teaching would take, that of pre-empting the teaching function, which, in a healthy community, belongs to everyone.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Community, Healthy, Saws

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.28, New Society Publishers

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• There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

  D. A. Carson

  Long, Ongoing, Study

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• I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or teaching to give anyone. I reflect only what I've seen and heard - most ordinary, very common. I have no fascination for fresh ideas and activity. All enthusiasm for worldly endeavours and strivings have all but gone. For me, thoughts, words and deeds- the activities of life, are merely the utensils for serving out the 'prasad' of the Being-ness.

  Mooji

  Ideas, Giving, Fascination

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