“With respect to teaching, I couldn't make sense of mainstream economics when I had to teach it to college students. At the same time, I could see at the school that there was a whole lot of hypocrisy. Not much real respect for the "higher learning."” RealWholeSchoolTeachTeachingStudentsCollegeHigherEconomicsMake SenseHypocrisyMainstreamCollege StudentsHigher Learning Author:Michael Yates
“So many things that you can ask children hopefully pique their interest and they can design and think for themselves. Having children draw and illustrate what they saw in their minds' eyes during the story is a tremendous teaching aid.” ThinkingMindChildrenStoriesEyeAsksInterestSawsTeachingDesignDrawsAidsHopefullyHaving ChildrenPique Author:Julie Andrews
“We are not responsible for the behavior of anyone that goes contrary to what we teach, any more than the Pope of Rome or the Archbishop of Canterbury or a religious leader who teaches moral law and values can be charged with the errant behavior of a parishioner or congregant who may violate their moral teachings. That is on the individual.” MayLawValuesIndividualReligiousLeaderMoralTeachTeachingBehaviorResponsibleContraryRomePopeMoral LawReligious LeadersCanterbury Author:Louis Farrakhan
“If you see a child with autistic-like behaviors at age two and three, the worst thing you can do is just let them sit and watch TV all day. That's just the worst thing you can do. You need to have a teacher working with that child, working on teaching language, working on social interaction, working on getting them interested in different things, and keeping their brain connected to the world.” IfsWorldNeedsChildrenTwoDifferentAgeThreeLanguageSocialCan DoBrainWatchesTeacherTeachingWorstTvsBehaviorConnectedDifferent ThingsInteractionWorst ThingsAutisticSocial Interaction Author:Temple Grandin
“If you have a 2-year-old who is non-verbal, don't wait until you get a diagnosis at 4. The child needs one-on-one teaching with an effective teacher now. This can be a grandmother or a teacher or someone from the community. Grandmothers are especially great. There are a lot of grannies around. Go to your church for help.” IfsNeedsYearsChildrenHelpingWaitingCommunityChurchTeacherTeachingGrandmotherDiagnosisOne On OneGrannyEffective Teacher Author:Temple Grandin
“Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he knew Islamic theology and jurisprudence very well. He knew Persian, Arabic and Turkish, which was coming into Anatolia at that time, very well. He was a remarkable, remarkable scholar, besides being a great saint.” WellsTeachingSaintTheologyIslamicRemarkableScholarRootedQuranPersianTurkishJurisprudence Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“Rumi is one of the great spokesmen for the Quranic instruction teaching that all prophets come from God and God does not create one religion, but many religions.” DoeTeachingProphetInstruction Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are brought forward. That appears to be easy. You can say, "Oh, well. I don't have to bother about not eating pork, and not drinking wine, and all you have to do is read the beautiful poetry of Rumi and talk about wine, women and song. Or something like that." This kind of attitude. This is the antipode of the other attitude which says Islam is nothing but throwing bombs, it has nothing to do with internal or inward purification.” WellsKindIdeasBeautifulSpiritualSongEasyAttitudePracticeTeachingEatingWineDrinkingIslamBotherBombsInternalsThrowingInwardPorkPurificationOh WellDrinking WineSpiritual TeachingBeautiful PoetryAntipodes Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert - I like that. And seeing clients, doing group therapy, writing books.” WorldWritingBookSeeingGroupsTeachingAspectVariousAround The WorldTherapyClientsVery HappyWriting A BookGroup Therapy Author:Albert Ellis
“Teaching has definitely become a big part of my life in the past ten plus years. As it often does for many dedicated players. Because you can have some great gigs.” YearsDoeBigsPastPlayerTeachingTenPlusDedicatedGigs Author:Jon Gordon
“We [me and my wife] went back to St. Paul, worked for a year - again, I guess I would have to admit now, doing a rather shaky job of teaching people - but at the end of that year we returned to England and worked in the [Bernard] Leach Pottery for two and a half years.” PeopleYearsTwoEndsJobsHalfWifeTeachingEnglandMy WifePotteryHalf A Year Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Alix [ MacKenzie] had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.” ChildrenHomeCareTeachingTaughtBabyTake Care Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Eventually I gave up teaching at the St. Paul Gallery because of disagreements with the philosophy of that museum, and I got a job at the University of Minnesota, which was very fortunate because it was a part-time job and that gave us a great deal of time in our studio to work together and to make the pots we wanted to make.” PhilosophyWantedTogetherJobsDealsTeachingUniversityStudiosFortunateWorking TogetherMuseumsPotDisagreementGalleryGave UpMinnesotaPart TimePart Time Jobs Author:Warren MacKenzie
“I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre and some of them are bad. If they're really bad and I'd be ashamed of them, I throw them out, but if they're mediocre and they'll serve the purpose for which they're designed, that is, a mixing bowl or a soup bowl or a plate or whatever, I sell them. And this income from the sale of these pots permits me to go on and make other pots. It's even more important now that I've quit teaching, because I do not have a teacher's salary to fall back on.” IfsYearsImportantPurposeFallTeacherTeachingGoes OnSellsQuittingIncomeAshamedPotPermitPlatesBowlsMediocreSoupSalaryMixingFall Back Author:Warren MacKenzie
“I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the pope is the custodian.” MeanInterestChurchTeachingPopeEvokeCustodians Author:George Weigel
“When media "narratives" about [Pope] Francis get set in concrete, and act as filters bending or distorting (or ignoring) aspects of his vision and his teaching that don't fit the established story line, the Church has a problem.” StoriesProblemChurchLinesVisionTeachingMediaFitAspectNarrativeConcretePopeFiltersBending Author:George Weigel
“The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?" - was a matter of the pope jettisoning millennia of Catholic moral teaching. It was not. It was a specific response to the circumstances of a man who had repented and was trying to live an upright life.” MenTryingMatterMoralTeachingJudgingCircumstancesCatholicResponseEndureNarrativePhrasesPopeSignatures Author:George Weigel
“I began to hear what I was being taught about God, by the priest and my parish, and my exterior teaching did not coincide, did not match up, with my interior reality. And as they were teaching me about that God I was thinking: Who are they talking about? This was not how I experienced God. I gradually began to move away from the God of organized religion.” ThinkingRealityMovingTalkingTeachingTaughtOrganizedPriestsInteriorsExteriorOrganized ReligionParish Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm always on the lookout for teaching poems - poems that inspire me and my students to write poems in response.” GivingWritingTogetherClassTeachingStudentsInspireResponsePrompts Author:Allison Joseph
“I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues. If I did, I would give students the tools to take the tests but not spend an inordinate amount of time on test prep nor on 'teaching to the test.' If the students, or their parents, want drill in testing, they'd have to go elsewhere. As a professional, my most important obligation is to teach the topic, skills, and methods in ways that I feel are intellectually legitimate.” IfsWayWantGivingFeelsImportantParentMy OwnTeachVirtueTeachingStudentsAmountSkillsToolsTestsMethodObligationStakesElsewhereTopicsTestingModeratesRelievedDrillsTeaching And EducationPreps Author:Howard Gardner
“There are some people that say I need to be more academic in my teaching, I need to be more disciple developing focus, probably true. But where my heart is, is with people who are just passing through difficult time. I want to put literature in a form that is accessible for people who don't particularly read books.” PeopleWantNeedsHeartBookFormLiteratureDifficultFocusTeachingMy HeartPassingPassingsDevelopingAcademicDiscipleDifficult TimesPassing Through Author:Max Lucado
“Religion by itself was not meant to be a divisive tool. All of our religious teachings have similar rules, such as a commitment to peace and nonviolence, and care for women and widows and orphans. What has destroyed a coming together is men's interpretation of religion.” MenCareTogetherReligiousTeachingCommitmentToolsDestroyedInterpretationMeant To BeNonviolenceWidowsOrphanComing TogetherWidows And OrphansWere Not Meant To Be Author:Leymah Gbowee
“I feel like hate and darkness get so much airtime. We need to give peace and love as much airtime as we can. We need to be teaching our kids that it's okay to love whoever you want to love, and it's okay to be who you want to be, and it's okay to feel that everybody should be treated equally and with respect. Such simple things that I don't know why it's hard for people to understand.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsGivingFeelsShouldHardKidsHateSimpleDarknessTeachingOkayAnd LoveTreatedSimple ThingsPeace And Love Author:Jim James
“We don't seek to destroy our enemies. After all, Jesus taught that our love must extend even to enemies. It's a remarkable teaching. Not to destroy enemies, but to convert hearts, to win people over to the cause of justice.” PeopleHeartJesusWinningCausesJusticeEnemyTeachingTaughtRemarkableOur Love Author:Robert P. George
“My poems - like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching - these things express who I am. I don't feel any extra responsibilities or relishes or necessary evils in them. They are part of who I am, with all of those customary desires and doubts, purposes and confusions that come along with being a particular person.” FeelsPersonsDesirePurposeEvilResponsibilityDoubtTeachingParticularMy FamilyWho I AmConfusionExtrasFamily LifeRelishNecessary Evil Author:Robert Pinsky
“I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this chance to have a job pass me by. I went out and learned and I stayed one step ahead of the students by reading and I got to be pretty proficient at throwing on the wheel and making my own glazes, ordering the chemicals and having the students go out and dig and process their clay, and doing things that they weren't teaching at Howard University. So Talladega College opened up my whole sensibility about experimental teaching.” ArtWholeJobsCoursesReadingProcessChanceMy OwnStepsTeachingStudentsCollegeUniversityWheelsChemicalsThrowingSensibilityClayArt EducationCeramics Author:David C. Driskell
“It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to something beyond the classroom; life.” WellsDoneTeachingNotionClassroomThoroughWell Done Author:David C. Driskell
“Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant was that this really was a very fervent kind of civil rights art course, not altogether art history. It wasn't altogether theory. She called it an action course.” KindArtSaidActionUsedCoursesRightsTeachingTheoryCivil RightsMaryDisguiseArt HistoryFervent Author:David C. Driskell
“We don't invest in financial literacy in a meaningful way. We should be teaching elementary school children how to balance a checkbook, how to do basic accounting, why it's important to pay your bills on time. First, education. Begin the learning process as early as possible, in elementary school. Second, encourage and support entrepreneurism. Third, policy. I know it's a priority of the US Treasury to augment financial inclusion and increase financial literacy.” KnowsWayShouldFirstsChildrenImportantSchoolProcessPaySupportTeachingPolicyBalanceThirdsIncreaseBillsFinancialPrioritiesMeaningfulInclusionLiteracyAccountingLearning ProcessTreasuryElementary SchoolFinancial LiteracyUs Treasury Author:Kabir Sehgal
“Probably one of the strongest movements of the Holy Spirit is in the Roman Catholic Church, so there's not a huge theological difference between the official teaching of the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church.” SpiritDifferencesChurchTeachingMovementHugeHolyCatholicHoly SpiritOfficialsStrongestCatholic ChurchTheologicalRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Nicky Gumbel
“My position on the issue of homosexuality is no different from the position of the Anglican Church and all the major denominations around the world. I know that it's different from the secular culture in the western world, but it's no different from the teaching of the church globally. We're Christians basically.” KnowsWorldDifferentChristianCultureChurchIssuesTeachingPositionMajorsWesternAround The WorldSecularHomosexualityWestern WorldDenominations Author:Nicky Gumbel
“The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth propositions, moves you along, moves your emotions as well as informs your intellect.” PeopleWayWellsStoriesMovingEmotionFictionTeachingHistoricalIntellectSignificantLogicalHistorical FictionPropositionsPower Of Stories Author:Hank Hanegraaff
“If the bishops are saying that it is divine revelation that seven percent of unemployment is morally unacceptable and that that is a teaching which must as a matter of faith be accepted by all Catholics, I respectfully dissent.” TeachingDivineCatholicSevenAcceptedRevelationsDissent Author:Bruce Babbitt
“I try to be realistic with students. And say that there's a good chance that they're not going to get a creative writing teaching job, that there aren't enough jobs to go around and the university faculties are cutting back on staff and that they may have to get some other kind of work. None of them wants to hear that, but it is true and I think I'm a good example for them of somebody who took the other route.” ThinkingWritingTryingKindEnoughChanceCreativeCuttingTeachingStudentsRealisticCreative Writing Author:Ted Kooser
“What I like best about teaching is that it allows me to explore my own interest with a group.” InterestTeaching Author:Elaine Equi
“My normal writing day involves three hours of actual writing, before noon, and the rest is just feeding the writing. There is teaching (so I can afford to write), travel to be planned and executed. There are dozens of emails daily, gardening, lots of dishes (where do all these dishes come from?), daily family emergencies, and, of course, the petting of the donkeys. The smell of donkeys is heavenly, and their he-honking is the sweetest music. I feel calm just thinking about them.” ThinkingWritingHoursTeachingCalmGardeningDonkey Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“People remember stories much better than they remember a straight list of teachings.” PeopleRememberTeaching Author:Marcus Borg
“I got used to being a writer. To compare it to teaching - I taught for twenty-five years; for the first two or three years it was heady. I was discovering that I could do something and do it well. Be useful to people. It was exhilarating, sort of like the first two weeks of being in love with somebody, and then it becomes like the third bite of pizza. The first bite is wonderful. The second bite is not disappointing. The third? Meh. You get used to it.” PeopleWonderfulWeekTeachingCompareBeing In LoveDisappointingExhilarating Author:Cynthia Voigt
“I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching is done by PhDs, who by temperament, training, interests, and rewards are researchers first. So they spend most of their time and energy probing a snip of a field's cutting edge. In my view, the attributes needed to be a transformative undergraduate instructor are pretty orthogonal to that. It would seem that undergraduate education would be superior if there was a separate track for teaching faculty.” BelieveDoneProblemEnergyI BelieveInterestCuttingTeachingTrainingTrackTemperamentTime And EnergyCutting Edge Author:Marty Nemko
“I found great value in teaching students from the outset of their studies how to draw very realistically. Otherwise, you're starting deep into the alphabet instead of having started at the start. If you discard essential things like drawing, design, color and so on at the beginning, then you're just sort of floating out in space, without any basis to work from.” ValuesStudyTeachingDesignStudents Author:David Small
“I think what Laura Linney was saying about teaching her all the lessons as a child actor, right, that's a whole ball of wax. That's a really mixed bag of stuff. I look at so many people that I knew personally or didn't know personally but who have ended badly, have died young, have been destitute - there are a lot of bad child-actor-gone-wrong stories, a very high percentage, but I think the thing about it is that a lot of those are Hollywood stories, and you don't have that same kind of a thing in the theater.” PeopleThinkingKindChildrenTeaching Author:Cynthia Nixon
“I do have to admit that teaching, composing, and editing is a bit easier than sitting at the organ or harpsichord for seven straight hours, but I do love to do it anyway! I have found my career changing over the years.” HoursTeachingSeven Author:Barbara Harbach
“Great leaders in our study treated their people like partners in the organization. That meant they created for their people a sense of connection by teaching them how their jobs impact the larger organization. And they showed them growth opportunities, how they can grow and develop with the company.” PeopleOpportunityGrowthLeaderStudyTeachingGreat Leader Author:Adrian Gostick
“I did one year of school and I was doing correspondence school, which was actually another happy accident. Correspondence school is basically home school, but you teach yourself instead of your parents teaching you. I found that to be one of the most important things in my life is that I learned how to teach myself things. I feel like that's something that schools should actually teach.” ImportantHomeSchoolParentTeachTeaching Author:Jherek Bischoff
“I was the type of person who was the question-asker. And not just genuine questions, I would ask a question so the author would know how much I knew about them. Once I went to a Tobias Wolff reading. I knew he was teaching at Syracuse at that time. And so, I remember asking him how he liked Syracuse. People do that to me now and it's okay. There is rarely a time when I just have had enough.” PeopleEnoughRememberReadingTeachingOkayTobias Author:David Sedaris
“My own work has been influenced by my years of teaching in that it's very hard for me to be cynical. When you're working with emerging, brilliant talent, you have to believe in the future. It makes me hungry, as a 65-year-old. I'm not thinking about the time that is behind me. I'm thinking of these people that I watch to catch up with and be in their company.” PeopleThinkingBelieveTeachingTalentBrilliantHungryCynicalEmerging Author:Paula Vogel
“Actually, on a slightly more serious but kind of parallel level, I remember being on Loveline before both hosts ascended into loftier places in the culture. But I remember being shocked by Dr. Drew. He went into this extended monologue about how anyone with a baby voice is probably the victim of child abuse or has some daddy issue. As an intellectually curious person, all I could think is that there isn't any clinical evidence about that. But to be the guy wearing the doctor's hat on the radio and teaching everybody about this? It just seemed like a parody of good advice.” ThinkingKindChildrenRememberGuyCultureTeachingAdviceSeriousBabyEvidenceAbuseVictimCuriousHostChild AbuseDaddyGood Advice Author:John Flansburgh
“How do you get out of a belief system? First you have to destruct the belief system. Traditionally, the teacher is supposed to remove your ignorance. But when you remove ignorance, you start with removing what is causing the ignorance, which is your belief system. So the teacher's job indeed is to first deconstruct your belief system. And then to give you inspiration so you'll go out to create a path to discover what is spirit, what is beauty, what is love, because these things nobody can teach you. So teaching really should be a demolition job.” GivingInspirationSpiritBeliefLove IsTeachPathTeacherTeachingIgnoranceWhat Is Love Author:Ricky Ray
“The word "Christian" means something in particular. The basic outline and general truths and doctrines central to Christianity have been hammered out over 2000 years of reflection on the teachings of Jesus and his apostles. If you disagree with these foundational concerns - the kinds of things I focus on in The Story of Reality - then you're simply not a Christian.” KindMeanRealityChristianJesusChristianityFocusTeachingReflectionConcernDisagree Author:Greg Koukl
“I would say how important it is that we stop teaching kids, from the beginning, that boys are more important than girls. It's the 21st century, you know, let's go here. We have to show kids that boys and girls share the sandbox equally and do equally interesting things. We're teaching kids something that we have to try to get rid of later on. Why not just stop filling them with unconscious gender bias?” TryingImportantKidsGirlInterestingBoysShareTeachingGenderUnconsciousBias21st CenturyBoy And Girl Author:Geena Davis