Teaching Quotes - Page 6

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.