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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.
I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.
Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.
Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that.
Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training."
Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.
I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.
The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.
Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.
I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.
Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.
There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.
The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.
Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.
As for my mom, her biggest gift to me was teaching me I can and I must use my voice. I owe her a debt of gratitude.
...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)
To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.
In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.
Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.
Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...
As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.
I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.
Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.