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If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?
We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
Devotion to God is studying him in every aspect; serving God is teaching what you know of Him to others.
Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.
I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.
Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.
Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.
To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.
I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.
The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.
All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.
That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight.
Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.
The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.
What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.
Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.
One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.
Teaching yoga is the only thing I can do. I can't imagine not doing it. I love it because I believe in it.
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.
We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.