teaching quotes

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.

The best teacher is very interactive.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‚basic rights.‘

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

I came to America to teach my method – not to enter a research experiment.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

I give the children education.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I can take a beginner kid that has never danced in their lives, and I can teach them something, or I can take a really advanced dancer, and I can make them into a professional.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.