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Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.
If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!
Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.
Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.
I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. —Raistlin Majere
I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.
I would prefer the teacher to focus on teaching and have a security officer worry about keeping the kids safe.
The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.
This is not just about talking or teaching a practice - this is about releasing an explosive energy of ecstasy.
The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.
Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.
Compassion, caring, teaching, loving, and sharing your gifts, talents, and abilities are the gateways to power.
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.
There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.
The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.
Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.
Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.
She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.