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I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.
I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.
Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.
My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.
There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.
The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.
Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.
He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.
I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.
He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.
Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.
Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.
If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.
When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.
The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?
A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.
Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.
Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.
I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.
A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.
All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.
Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.