T Quotes
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“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.”
“Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.”
“Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.”
“Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of books, and invested me in the lives of others and the world around me.”
“Teaching high school, in addition to knowing one's subject matter thoroughly and being able to convey it to others, requires the grit of a long-distance runner, the stamina of a boxer going 15 rounds, the temperament of a juggler and the street smarts of a three-card monte dealer.”
“Teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see I have a chance to gain self knowledge and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject. In fact, knowing my students and my subject depends heavily on self knowledge.”
Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
“Teaching how to think is better than lecturing how to do it.”
“Teaching I realized took up a lot of my time. I was a kind of a teacher that spent time with students, spoke to them after class, tried to help them out. I'd talk with them personally about their work and try to get out of them what they were thinking about, forcing them to thinking seriously and not just falling back on all the ideas that they had picked up someplace. And so I took my job teaching very seriously and that - as a result, it took up a lot of time.”
“Teaching, in its noblest expression, transcends the mere transmission of knowledge. It is an act of selfless love, where the master, far from seeking to impose their greatness, becomes the bridge facilitating the student's growth. The teacher helps the student explore and realize their abilities, guiding and supporting their journey toward profound development.”
Source: Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho
“Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume that I had what my students needed in terms of knowledge and skills. I also had to show them that I was their ally. I had to show them that I was concerned about them, wanted to relate to them, and that I was fundamentally on their side.”
“Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.”
Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.”
“Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.”
“Teaching is a gift you give not only to others, but also to yourself. You give and you receive, you teach and you learn.”
“Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.”
“Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.”
“Teaching is a great way to keep learning.”
“Teaching is a huge part of what I do. I love to think about what I do out loud, and the best way to do this is to teach. I usually learn a lot from the students in my workshops, because we work to build the classes around a collaborative environment where everyone is working towards the same goal of learning how to observe and see the subject well, because everyone brings different approaches and experiences with them, the other students and myself learn new methods that we can add into what we do.”
“Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.”
Source: Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age
“Teaching is a passionate profession.”
“Teaching is a performance art.”
“Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.”
“Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice.”
Source: Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel
“Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.”
“Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.”
“Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.”
“Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.”
“Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.”
“Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.”
“Teaching is about igniting courage where there is fear and confidence where there is doubt.”
“Teaching is about making learning a journey of intellectual awakening, embarking on a quest for enlightenment by both the mentor and mentee together.”
“Teaching is about making learning a journey of intellectual awakening, embarking on a quest for enlightenment of both the mentor and mentee in togetherness.”
“Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.”
“Teaching is almost like an act of prayer for me. I feel that I am present at the intersection of people and ideas in a very holy way. There are not many places where successful adults can take a break from work or domestic issues and freely and safely explore their inner lives or global issues through an ethical lens.”
“Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.”
Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.”
“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.”
Source: The University and the Public Interest
“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”
Source: The University and the Public Interest
“Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me - and the wheel turns.”
“Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.”
“Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new worldviews and new structural dilemmas and new characters - it's really exciting for me.”
“Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.”
“Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.”
“Teaching is listening, learning is talking”
“Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.”
Source: What is called thinking?
“Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.”
“Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.”
Source: The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem
“Teaching is my most reliable form of human contact. I love the opportunity to speak Spanish (which I don't do at home), the give-and-take with students, the surprises. One day you think you have the goods for a sensational class and it bombs. The next day you have nothing and the class turns out splendidly.”
“Teaching is no joke, sonny! ... Comforting truths, they call it! Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards. Besides, you've no right to call that sort of thing comfort. Might as well talk about condolences! The Word of God is a red-hot iron. And you who preach it 'ud go picking it up with a pair of tongs, for fear of burning yourself, you daren't get hold of it with both hands. It's too funny! Why, the priest who descends from the pulpit of Truth, with a mouth like a hen's vent, a little hot but pleased with himself, he's not been preaching: at best he's been purring like a tabby-cat. Mind you that can happen to us all, we're all half asleep, it's the devil to wake us up, sometimes — the apostles slept all right at Gethsemane. Still, there's a difference... And mind you many a fellow who waves his arms and sweats like a furniture-remover isn't necessarily any more awakened than the rest. On the contrary. I simply mean that when the Lord has drawn from me some word for the good of souls, I know, because of the pain of it.”
Source: The Diary of a Country Priest
“Teaching is not a job, for your knowledge.”