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“I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Found Teaching Students Instruments Not Interested Just Being Being Me Blunt Discredit Being Mean Discredit You

Author:Tim Gunn

“I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.”

Teaching Century Fashion Design Discipline Nineteenth Century Fashion Design

Author:Tim Gunn

“On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.”

Firsts My Own Teaching Building Classroom

Author:Tim Gunn

“Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.”

Teaching Training Intellect Innate Braces Proper Training

Author:Horace

“Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.”

Knows Country Language Wish Easy Study Teacher Teaching Breathe Boat Atmosphere Acquire Native Dominant Thorough Best Teacher Miners Moats

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.”

Should Mind Kind Memories Teaching Industry Genius Equal Should Have Patient Invention Originality Competent Correctness Erudition

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.”

Men Teacher Teaching Youth Equal Every Man Bows Ulysses

Book:The Collected Prose Works of John Milton (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Collected Prose Works of John Milton (Annotated Edition)

“My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.”

Young Teaching Football Like You Normal Training Baseball Teenager Idols Mum Boston Aunt Playing Baseball

Author:Donnie Yen

“For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as evidence of the continuing vitality of this remarkable teaching. It may be counted as among the small handful of books that communicate something of what Gurdjieff brought.”

People Wells May Book Ideas Numbers Growing Teaching Offers Approach Evidence Seeking Communicate Awakening Guidance Remarkable Continuing Vitality Handful

Author:Jacob Needleman

“I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.”

Stills Real Play Young Half Teaching Couple Mountain Horse Dozen Trustworthy Polo

Author:William Devane

“Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.”

People Enjoy Millions Imagine Teaching Mom Surprise Lifetime Drawing Comic Personal Things Comic Strips

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“You see, my Lord Archbishop, what is "dubious" about my theology is not that it contradicts particular doctrinal teachings, things are much worse or better: what I want, is no more and no less than a fundamental change in the whole way that theology is done today; but I want this out of faith, not out of faithlessness.”

Way Want Done Whole Today Lord Teaching Particular Fundamentals Theology Dubious

Author:Eugen Drewermann

“If you want to change people by talking about God, then there is only one way: instead of teaching God, you must live God. Because: "teaching" God is unthinkable in any other way than the way you would teach love or poetry. You teach love only through love, poetry only through writing poetry, faith in God only through a contagious way of trusting.”

People Ifs Way Want Writing Talking Teach Teaching One Way Faith In God Love Poetry Contagious Unthinkable Writing Poetry

Author:Eugen Drewermann

“In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.”

Law Teaching Theory Educational Disaster Imitation Axioms Algebra

Author:Ivor Grattan-Guinness

“Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.”

Knows Needs Teacher Teaching Fields Research Scientist Active Contact

Author:Alan Tower Waterman

“The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists.”

Men Long Young Sound Numbers Effort Teaching Depends Healthy Research Men And Women Scientist Core Adequate Disinterested Carrying On New Knowledge

Author:Alan Tower Waterman

“I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.”

Persons Young Easy Hurt Teaching Intention

Author:Tim Gunn

“At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.”

“Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, theyre not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.”

Needs Giving Wells Different Teach Teaching Fine Foundation Fundamentals Cooks Restaurants Different Things Broads Dining Specialty Well Rounded Fine Dining

Author:David Chang

“Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think its important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.”

Thinking Wells Children Two Important Together Parent Teacher Teaching Fields Garden Accomplish Two Things Farms Connecting Curriculum Get Together Parents And Teachers Field Trip

Author:Alice Waters

“Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert that religious faith necessarily upholds democratic values.”

Would Be Values Given Religious Records Atheism Teaching Evidence Historical Democratic Positive Atheism Religious Faith Ambiguity Foolhardy Empirical Evidence Democratic Values Religious Texts

Book:Religion and Politics in the United States

Source: Religion and Politics in the United States

“Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.”

Character Humor School Political Virtue Path Teaching Students Building Catholic Missions Word Of God Serving God Political Humor Catholic School

Author:George W. Bush

“Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.”

World Teaching Communication Genius Needed Skills Caring Violent Practicals Developing Nonviolent Communication Practical Skills

Author:Riane Eisler

“Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.”

“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.”

“Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.”

Want Player Teaching Coaching Versus

Author:Kevin Garnett

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Book:The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)

Source: The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)

“The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.”

“The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.”

Children Mother Father Powerful Teaching Concerned Most Powerful Righteous

Author:L. Tom Perry

“The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.”

People Want Teach Teaching Expression Personality Music Is

Author:Michael Kiwanuka

“What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.”

Quality Principles Teaching Fixed Dogma Frozen Fossils Like Love Religious Dogma Dead Dog

Author:Rajneesh

“The goal of gospel teaching... is not to 'pour information' into the minds of class members... The aim is to inspire the individual to think about, feel about, and then do something about living gospel principles.”

Thinking Feels Mind Individual Goal Class Principles Teaching Information Inspire Members Aim

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.”

Brain Teaching Tumors Brain Tumor

Book:The English Major: A Novel

Source: The English Major: A Novel

“Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.”

Thinking Want Stories Steps Novel Teaching Reader Tools Entity

Author:Lorrie Moore

“Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.”

Men Jobs Teaching Female Including Average Traditional Occupation Nursing

Author:Sander Levin

“We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become 'self feeders.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own.”

People Should Made Self Done Christian Spiritual Lines Mistake Responsibility Practice Teaching Taught Should Have Taking Responsibility Made A Mistake Spiritual Practice

Author:Bill Hybels

“Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.”

Years Mean Ideas Feelings Age Reading Five Teaching Crime Direct Thirds Constitution Five Years Privacy Subtle Fourth Gross Fifth Invasion Violation Thorough Personhood Invasion Of Privacy

Author:Walter Tevis

“To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.”

Children Form Teacher Teaching Filling Teaching Children Paperwork Filling In

Author:William Hague

“It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.”

Thinking Seems Order Views History Teaching Kings Essentials Mathematics Point Of View Tyrants Plato Geometry Unwise True Wisdom Plato S Good Kings Syracuse

Book:History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

“I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.”

Ideas Wanted Life Is Class Teaching College Office Research Library Appeals Glamorous Glamorous Life

Author:Ben Stein

“I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence. Once you buy into that, [...] then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'”

People World Needs Believe Wells Belief Religious Virtue Nice Doors Teaching Safe Evidence Extremism Extremist Oh Well Criticise

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.”

People Thinking Needs May Christian Church Religious My Own Prayer Roles Teaching Praying Terrible Including

Author:Kevin Hart

“Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.”

Writing Kids Generations Teaching Danger Raises Moron Raise Up Lack Of Education Teaching Kids

Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury

“I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.”

Thinking Years May Different Philosophy Use School Spiritual Church My Own Teaching Bases Catholic Sunday Catholic School Spiritual Teaching

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions?”

Ifs Thinking Children Would Be Kindness Teaching Military Findings Our Children Active Peaceful Department What If Resolution Devoted Finding Peace Peaceful Resolution

Author:Dave Matthews

“It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].”

Want Dream Able School Grows Growing Up Teaching Healthy Eating Training Like Me Disorder Better Life Stretching Eating Disorder Cardio Life Dream Strength Training Aerobics

Author:Richard Simmons

“Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.”

Men Years Stills Left Religious Teaching Childhood Goes On Imaging

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.”

People Needs Enough Jobs Teacher Teaching Great Job

Author:Michael Bennet

“I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.”

Difficult Teaching Students Walking Classroom

Author:Lydia Davis

“A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.”

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