Teaching Quotes

"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith"

Lord Acton, Historian

"I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live"

John Milton, Poet

"Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers"

Brian Herbert, Author

"At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching"

James Levine, Musician

"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue"

Manuel Puig, Author

"Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

"This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career"

Al Jourgensen, Musician

"The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision"

Bruce Barton, Author

"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount"

Harry S. Truman, President

"In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"I want to attract the best people into teaching"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"It's not the teaching, it's the learning"

Sly Stone, Musician

"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for"

Josef Albers, Artist

"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"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

"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

"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

"More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform"

Tony Bennett, Musician

"Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking"

John Sexton, Educator

"In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point"

John Sexton, Educator

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

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

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