Teaching Quotes

"Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed"

William Bennett, Politician

"In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions"

James W. Black, Scientist

"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account"

Hugh Mackay

"Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming"

John Carmack, Scientist

"Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before"

Hugh Grant, Actor

"In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"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, Theologian

"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it"

James Tobin, Economist

"An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed"

A. J. Liebling, Journalist

"Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool"

Bill O'Reilly, Journalist

"The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching"

Warren E. Burger, Judge

"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself"

John Jay Chapman, Poet

"We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives"

Kyan Douglas, Celebrity

"The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich"

James Loeb, Businessman

"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

"I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people"

Leonard Orr, Celebrity

"My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

"I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist"

Ike Turner, Musician

"I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing"

Tobias Wolff, Writer

"The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities"

Lawrence R. Klein, Economist

"Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

"The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing"

Marguerite Young, Author

"The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

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