Teaching Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  War, Fighting, Gun

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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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• You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.

  Shawn Achor

  Jobs, Opportunity, Average

  Shawn Achor (2011). “The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work”, p.11, Random House

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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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• The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that test tomorrow and it's something that you're not interested in, that's just the opposite of education. It's also harming teaching, because the teachers are evaluated by the results of the test.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Ideas, Opposites

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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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• Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

  Daphne Koller

  School, College, Rooms

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• I love teaching; I love little kids.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Kids, Littles, Little Kid

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• If you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. Anything that can be written in a book, anything that can be said - all this is thinking . . . but if you read with a mind that has cut off all thinking, then Zen books, sutras and Bibles are all the truth. So is the barking of a dog or the crowing of a rooster. All things are teaching you at every moment, and these sounds are even better teaching than Zen books.

  Seungsahn

  Dog, Book, Cutting

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• From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.

  Garry Disher

  Writing, Years, Creative

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• Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Powerful, Iraq, Tools

  "Author Q&A: Miguel Syjuco revisits the Philippines' troubled past in Ilustrado". Interview with Brian Lynch, www.straight.com. October 28, 2010.

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• There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.

  Ben Goldacre

  Medicine, Differences, Crafts

  "Teachers need to drive the research agenda" by Ben Goldacre, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2013.

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• A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.

  Don Meyer

  Player, Program, Worst

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• I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.

  Mike McCue

  College, Management, Very Good

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• "And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Aunt, Forgive Me

  Charles Dickens (2009). “David Copperfield”, p.395, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition - but even more terrible to be frozen into it.

  Michael Parenti

  Writing, Careers, Virginia

  "Dirty Truths". Book by Michael Parenti, 1996.

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• My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

  George Steiner

  Father, Poetry And Music, Finest

  "George and his dragons" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

  Norman Douglas

  Men, Order, He Man

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

  Sigmund Freud

  Art, Feet, People

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• My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. That simply is not true. ... Unlike biological evolution, intelligent design is not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has no place in the curriculum of our nation's public school science classes.

  Edward Kennedy

  School, Intelligent, Class

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• These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that their inspiration came from the same source, written by men, translated by men, revised by men. If the Bible is to be placed in the hands of our children, read in our schools, taught in our theological seminaries, proclaimed as God's law in our temples of worship, let us by all means call a council of women in New York, and give it one more revision from the woman's standpoint.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  New York, Children, Inspiration

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• Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue at all? Surely not. Manliness of spirit, honesty of spirit, fullness of rightful purpose, these are virtues; poverty of spirit is a crime.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Jesus, Honesty, Giving

  Charles Bradlaugh (1889). “Theological Essays”, p.366, Library of Alexandria

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• No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we live in. Whether I'm writing or teaching about nutrition, pilates, green living or meditation, all topics simmer down to self thought and intention.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Writing, Impact

  Interview with Amber Zuckswert, epicself.com.

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