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The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.
I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.
I'm teaching myself to believe in things I don't understand, I don't even know if they're true, but that's what dreamers do.
Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.
I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.
Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.
There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.
To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.
I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.
Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.
The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.
I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.
People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.
Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.
Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
In teaching, I like being able to present clips from movies on VHS or DVD and then talk about them. That's what this movie is.
Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.
Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.
I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.
Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.
Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.
Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.
As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.
Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.
I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.