“Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.” GivingTwoArtistLinesTeacherTeachingStyleStudentsShapesOppositesAccountsPaintVarietyExplanationColourUnexpectedBeing An ArtistInexplicableBeing A Teacher Author:Pierre Alechinsky
“History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery.” PeopleDoeStillsImportantSeemsFacesSpiritualChristTeacherDangerTaughtTruth IsSpeechNegativeOppositesRepeatsHidingSpeakersNegativityFlatteryMisunderstoodAccuracyNegative PeopleCongregationSpiritual TeachersComplete Opposites Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.” ChildrenSelfSpiritualPurposeGrowsParentGoalChurchGrowing UpTeacherStudentsOppositesValuableAccomplishProfessionPermanentMaturityGraduatesClientsNurtureDependenceHealedNurturingTherapistsCongregationClergyActualitySpiritual Maturity Author:Christian Smith
“In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.” KnowsExistenceTeacherStudentsIgnoranceConceptsOppositesAbsolutesJustifyConsideringSelf KnowledgeBankingKnowledgeable Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that test tomorrow and it's something that you're not interested in, that's just the opposite of education. It's also harming teaching, because the teachers are evaluated by the results of the test.” IdeasMightResultsTeacherTeachingTomorrowTestsOppositesNot Interested Author:Noam Chomsky
“When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."” SaidHandsRememberTeacherOppositesGradesFourthVocabularyFourth GradeNonconformistVocabulary Words Author:Nick Offerman
“Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that they won't get the same kind of learning. But I learned just the opposite lesson; that my best teachers were not at Harvard University.” ThinkingKindEnoughKidsSchoolTeacherLessonsLuckyOppositesUniversityLeagueHarvardIvyBest TeacherIvy LeagueHarvard UniversityIvy League Schools Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.” MindSelfStatesInspirationChristianEvilTalkingMoralVirtueTeacherHumilityPrideEssentialsDevilOppositesMereGreedVicesComparisonBitesState Of MindConceitDrunkennessFleasAnti GodChristian Teachers Author:C. S. Lewis
“Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.” EducationLearningTeacherOppositesProgrammingContradictoryComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageComplementary Author:Niels Bohr
“Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers, the priests, the leaders - they all go on emphasizing that you have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one's being, and not going on any track of becoming - which is unending.” NeedsWritingChildrenParentSimpleLeaderCasesTeacherGoes OnBecomingOppositesCleanSimplicityTrackEasePriestsSlateUnendingClean Slate Author:Rajneesh
“Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.” ThinkingMindMayMemoriesTeacherTeachingOppositesGenuineBrainwashing Author:Mortimer Adler
“As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.” WorldEarthWealthSpacePoorViewsTeacherDoctorsMachinesOppositesProductiveEngineersNorth Pole Author:Barry Commoner