“Linking financial element to energy consumption I think has a huge role if you think about a display instrument that could teach us about what we are using, how much it costs us, how much it is saving, and therefore change our decisions.” IfsThinkingEnergyDecisionRolesTeachHugeCostElementsInstrumentsFinancialSavingDisplayConsumptionEnergy Consumption Author:Dan Ariely
“Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.” ThinkingMindBookCountrySchoolFacesGirlReadingWalksTeachSkillsTrainSlaveDevelopingThrownIllegalDictatorAcidBansCognitiveDeveloping Countries Author:Karin Slaughter
“I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the art. I think it would tend to soften the national manners, to teach us the meaning of leisure, to acquaint us with the charms of the open air, to strengthen and foster the tie between the race and the land. No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsGivingLooksArtCountryRaceTeachAirLandImportanceMannersTiesCharmLeisureGive And TakePedestrians Book:The Art of Seeing Things: Essays Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays
“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.” IfsThinkingMindPowerfulEducationTeachTeacherStudentsEducationalIntellectReformExpertsHorizonEducation And TeachersSchools And EducationTechniciansSchool EducationTeacher StudentPurpose Of EducationFree EducationInspiring EducationEducation Today Author:Robert M. Hutchins
“To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know one another; when we do so, the stereotypes that impede relationships will fall away. Finally, we can express regret to others for past prejudicial sins and ask God to forgive us and change our thinking.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenPastFallAsksSpeakSinTeachRegretOvercomingPrejudiceOur ChildrenForgivingIntoleranceStereotype Author:Beth Moore
“...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline [and] cooperation.” ThinkingPersonsCharacterHelpingTeachWonderfulOne ThingTeachingStudentsDisciplineShapesSkillsMusic IsToolsMusicalMathDevelopingBiologyCooperationTeaching History Author:Rich Mullins
“The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians are key, I think. They hold the power to empower.” PeopleThinkingReadingTeachKeysTricksEmpoweringLibrarianLove Of Reading Author:Jane Cleland
“Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'” PeopleThinkingTodayYoungRaceClassRolesTeachIssuesYouthStudentsSacredGenderImmigrationPropagandaGlobal WarmingOne TimeEducatorTrinityPolitically CorrectHitler Youth Author:Thomas Sowell
“I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard.” PeopleThinkingGivingHateTeachNiceCollegeGoes OnHabitCreaturesSpeechTrainGood WorkReally GreatHarvardEducatorHate MeMcdonaldsWork HabitsThey Hate Me Author:Charlie Munger
“With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when He was gone. Instead, He gave them concrete things to do - specific ways of being together in their bodies - that would go on teaching them what they needed to know when He was no longer around to teach them Himself ... "Do this" He said - not believe this but do this - "in remembrance of me.” ThinkingKnowsWayGivingBelieveSaidBodyTogetherUniverseJesusTeachGoneTeachingGoes OnNeededThings To DoConcreteRemembranceBeing Together Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“There is a sense of urgency and this is a time for teachers and I think that there is this psychic awareness with this new generation of seekers that they are here to teach and so that they really need to wake up fast, much like we did, because we know that we must show up at a very high level and so therefore I think that there is an unconscious sense of urgency like I need to do this and not just for me, but for something greater and they may not be able to put that into words, but they are experiencing it.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsMayShowsAbleLevelsTeachGreaterTeacherGenerationsAwarenessWake UpUnconsciousPsychicsSeekersUrgencyNew GenerationHigh LevelSense Of Urgency Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“The advanced organizations of Thinking must teach with their example by cooperating. Every human organization can cooperate in one or another way for the common good. We are a family and we should not miserably torment each other's life because that's absurd.” ThinkingWayShouldHumansCommonTeachExampleOrganizationAbsurdTormentAnother WayCommon GoodCooperating Author:Samael Aun Weor
“Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.” ThinkingStepsOpinionTeachLessonsProveEmptyLogicProofConclusionExcellentReasoningDependentLogicalJumpingGeometryJumping To Conclusions Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would do my homework and I think I could do a decent job. I don't think a degree in education would make me a better teacher. I sometimes teach in college. I don't teach for long periods of time, but I give workshops and I think I can communicate stuff. So, it's about communicating.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingLongI CanSometimesKidsJobsYoungStuffTeachTeacherWeekCollegePeriodsDegreesMathematicsCommunicateDecentHomeworkWorkshopsLong Periods Of Time Author:Philippe Falardeau
“The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.” ThinkingFeelsMindDoneWealthTeachPoetCommunicationDespiseCompositionGreat Poet Book:Essays (Annotated Edition) Source: Essays (Annotated Edition)
“I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It just kind of happened. I think I probably spent a lot of my childhood in front of my mirror pretending to do Cornflake commercials like the kids I've seen on TV from America.” ThinkingKindKidsAmericaTeachHappenedChildhoodFrontsTvsMirrorsPretendingAccents Author:India de Beaufort
“As an academic I feel I should intellectualize and theoretically analyze when all I really want to do is let the work take me somewhere, manipulate me, and then rough me up a bit. When it comes right down to it, I only want to spend time with work that makes me think and teaches me something while making my body react.” ThinkingWantFeelsShouldBodyBitsTeachRoughTake MeAcademicEnd TimesManipulateSpend Time Author:Barbara Degenevieve
“I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.” PeopleIfsThinkingArtCoursesCareersTeachCollegePhotographyDrawsAbsolutesNonsenseRoyal Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
“I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentDreamWould BeTeachMillionsTeacherDifferent KindsInitials Author:Martha Stewart
“I think that I learned music. And also you learn recommendations that you can use in your life. When you travel, you all the time remember what your mother teach you. You know in the African family the mother has a big role to play because the father is outside in the fields or going to work.” ThinkingKnowsPlayUseBigsRememberMotherFatherRolesTeachFieldsGoing To WorkRecommendations Author:Baaba Maal
“I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.” ThinkingWritingIdeasReasonSchoolFilmYoungTeachFiveInfluenceHollywoodCombinationVisualsPlusOperaStorylineStagingBest SchoolFilm And Music Author:Lalo Schifrin
“I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents were singing all the time, but not the traditional songs because they were very Christian; the Christian Sámis learnt from the missionaries and the priests that the traditional songs were from the Devil, so they didn't teach them to their children, but they were singing the Christian hymns all the time. So I think I got my musical education in this way. And of course the traditional songs were always under the hymns, because it doesn't just disappear, the traditional way of singing.” ThinkingWayChildrenWantedChristianSongCoursesParentTeachSingingDevilMusicalDisappearTraditionalPriestsHymnsMusical Education Author:Mari Boine
“I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me. Sometimes it is very lonely. But I know the lonely times teach me the most. I must let go in order to let anything in. No one can love me, for me.” ThinkingKnowsGivingSometimesOrderMy OwnTeachLetting GoLonelyLet MeLeaving MeMe AloneLeave Me Alone Author:Sabrina Ward Harrison
“I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.” ThinkingTodaySchoolYoungVoiceChurchMemoriesLevelsTeachAdviceAreasSingersLocalsPerformingChoirHappy MemoriesMusicianshipChurch ChoirChoral Music Author:Katherine Jenkins
“Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.” ThinkingKnowsImportantDesireTeach Author:Larry Bird