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The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.
Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.
Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.
For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.
If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".
Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.
I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.
The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.
I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.
I've never enjoyed a course or training as much as this. I feel inspired, energised and more focussed about my teaching and career future.
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.
Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.
On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.
In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.
Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.
Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized.
There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
The most important thing I learned is that when you are actively learning about someone else you are passively teaching them about yourself.
Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.
Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.
Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.
In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.
I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.
I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.
A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back."
Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to themselves.
The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.
My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.
What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? . . . First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information.
Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.
There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?
God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom