T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.”
“Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.”
“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.”
“Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.”
“Teaching my kids to give back is an essential part of parenting. It's not something that's optional. Compassion is one of the basic values that I want my children to have: that if they see a need, whether it's around the corner or thousands of miles of away, they should feel motivated to do whatever they can to help.”
“Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence.”
“Teaching: one of the few professions that permit love.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be trite by its nature. Of course, read a lot, write a lot. The kind of advice I wish I had been given is all of a practical nature, having to do with publishers and agents.”
“Teaching others imparts no new knowledge; learning from others matures you.”
“Teaching others, he corrected himself.”
“Teaching our children is more than just imparting information. It's helping our children get the doctrine into their hearts in a way that it becomes part of their very being and is reflected in their attitudes and behavior throughout their lives.”
“Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.”
“Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.”
“Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.”
Source: Achieving Peak Performance: A Step by Step System to Grow a Well Trained, Educated, and Motivated Team for the 21st Century
“Teaching people the best way to market organically with Facebook, is like teaching them the best way to butter bread, with a spoon.”
“Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.”
“Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look”
“Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.”
“Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in fruitful debate. The lively narratives, based on the author's experiences of working with various groups interested in using philosophical tools to clarify their thought and action, will engage a wide range of readers.”
“Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.”
“Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition
“Teaching remains a heroic act to me, and teachers live a necessary and all-important life. We are killing their spirit with unnecessary pressure and expectation that seem forced and destructive to me. Long ago I was one of them. I still regret I was forced to leave them. My entire body of work is because of men and women like them.”
Source: A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.”
Source: Early Letters
“Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.”
“Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.”
“Teaching self-discipline to children is a vital part of the parenting job description.”
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”
“Teaching should not be confused with personal practice.”
Source: Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who want to Further Serve their Students
“Teaching simply means, find your niche and excel at it! Teach children. Teach patience. Show compassion....Your actions as a servant are teachable moments. In other words, don't be a servant alone. Bring someone beside you and teach them how to serve with a willing heart.”
Source: Mary Magdalene a Woman of Resilience
“Teaching some things that are true, prematurely or at the wrong time, can invite sorrow and heartbreak instead of the joy intended to accompany learning.... The scriptures teach emphatically that we must give milk before meat. The Lord made it very clear that some things are to be taught selectively and some things are to be given only to those who are worthy.”
“Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.”
“Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower.”
“Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed teaching students 'the full range of scientific views' about Darwinian evolution.”
Source: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design
“Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.”
“Teaching the Bible involves far more than simply giving out information about the Bible. Bible teaching is ministering to people, liberating them from their inadequate concepts of God, expanding their notion of what it means to live faithfully before God, helping them cast aside old self-defeating habits and replace them with habits of holiness.”
Source: Effective Bible Teaching
“Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.”
“Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.”
Source: Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
“Teaching the pagan religion of evolutionism is a waste of valuable class time and textbook space. It is also one of the reasons American kids don't test as well in science as kids in other parts of the world.”
“Teaching the value of animals to our young people is the most important thing any adult can do."
“You cannot bully us around just because you think you are better or stronger. We are all special and awesome in our own ways!”
“…most of the kids today have no idea how great their futures can be.”
Source: Animal Rescuers
“Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.”
“Teaching to care for the Environment is teaching to value Life.”
“Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.”
“Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.”
“Teaching unsupported by grace may enter our ears, but it never reaches the heart. When God's grace does touch our innermost minds to bring understanding, then his word, which is received by the ear, can sink deep into the heart.”
“Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.”
“Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.”
“Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.”
“Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.”
Source: Straight from the Heart