Teaching Quotes

"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

"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

"John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable"

Claudio Hummes

"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman"

George Stigler, Economist

"But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting"

Dabney Coleman, Actor

"I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching"

Helen Garner, Novelist

"It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts"

Erno Rubik, Inventor

"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised"

Colin Firth, Actor

"There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public"

B. Carroll Reece, Politician

"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards"

James S. Coleman, Sociologist

"When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom"

Samuel Dash, Lawyer

"I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality"

M. Russell Ballard, Clergyman

"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity"

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Artist

"To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness"

Timothy Radcliffe, Clergyman

"This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness"

Origen, Theologian

"We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching"

Ralph Regula, Politician

"I love teaching"

Harry Mathews, Author

"What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans"

Timothy Radcliffe, Clergyman

"We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person"

Neil Cavuto, Journalist

"Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people"

Taryn Manning, Actress

"The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills"

Tom DeLay, Politician

"So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic"

Shelley Berman, Comedian

"We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is"

William P. Leahy, Educator

"From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical"

Rex Hunt, Entertainer

"I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure"

Brendan Gleeson, Actor

"Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern"

Antony Hewish, Scientist

"The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

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