Teaching Quotes - Page 150

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.

Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.

Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

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.

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

When I started teaching, I would get miffed if a student asked me to write him or her a recommendation for law school - I'd feel like that's not what we were doing in the course. But now I see that person as someone who might be gainfully employed. I bring in a lot of people to speak to my classes, and I've gotten to the point where I've expanded the type of guests I invite to include people both inside and outside of the traditional publishing world.

Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.

I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.

You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.

The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

Teaching is a passionate profession.

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

I am not a "Christian author." I am an author who is a Christian. While my books reflect my faith, they are not intended as teaching tools for a Christian audience per se. My books are stories created around principles that work for everyone and they work every time.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

I would prefer the teacher to focus on teaching and have a security officer worry about keeping the kids safe.