“Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about our moral condition. Both thought that religion would become more and not less powerful, emotionally and morally, if the claims of scriptures and religious teachings were taken symbolically rather than literally (whatever 'literally' might mean in the case of claims that are either nonsensical or outdated or historically unsupportable if taken as metaphysical or historical assertions).” IfsThinkingWayMeanMightReligiousPowerfulMoralCasesTakenTeachingConditionsEmotionalTraditionClaimsHistoricalScriptureAestheticMetaphysicalAssertionOutdatedNonsensicalEmotional Power Author:Allen W. Wood
“What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.” MeanTeachingScriptureHebrewTeaching LearningTorah Author:Elie Wiesel
“[Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".” IfsMeanBookCareCoursesInterestingDarknessTeachingDon't CareI Don't CareVery InterestingNoonArthurInteresting BookDarkness At Noon Author:Nat Hentoff
“My mother was always expanding my art skills and getting me to paint different things. You always got to push some. And, I mean, I learned basic things like getting up on time, how to shop - you know, you don't touch things in a store you're not going to buy. These things were taught very young. I don't see today enough of this basic, you know, basic skill teaching.” KnowsMeanArtDifferentEnoughTodayYoungMotherTeachingTaughtSkillsPaintStoresShopsDifferent ThingsExpandingBasic Things Author:Temple Grandin
“I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an even worse experience than the Catholic schools. I mean, they were still teaching fractions. But mostly, I played hooky.” MeanStillsSchoolTeachingMonthsSixHigh SchoolCatholicQuittingSix MonthsFractionsCatholic School16th Birthday Author:George Carlin
“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
“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
“Something that we call developing the third eye in others. The eye is that people have intention when they're interacting, and often don't realize that there is an impact for everything that they do. The littlest thing, from scratching their head back here. This is, universally, "I don't understand what you said." That's what the scratch behind the ear means. If we know that, it's a whole other level. I could go back and say, "Let me do this again, because I'm seeing that it's not fully registering." We should be teaching these to people, is what I'm saying.” PeopleMeanEyeRealizingTeachingLet MeIntention Author:Judith E. Glaser
“The trouble today is that many Christians live in a kind of bubble of assumptions about what their Christianity means, especially if it places them comfortably among "the good guys," - assumptions that are likely to be drawn as much from folk-Christianity, surrounding political culture, popular pulp-books about the "End Times," or their favourite guru writer or therapist, than from sober and comprehensive reading of the Bible as a whole. Prophets and preachers have the unwelcome task of pricking that bubble with the sharpness of actual texts and teachings of the Bible itself.” KindMeanTodayChristianPoliticalGuyCultureReadingChristianityTroubleTeachingProphetAssumptionBubblesFavouritePreacherSoberEnd TimesGuruGood Guy Author:Christopher J. H. Wright
“I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like a charlatan because what I was teaching I probably couldn't do.” WritingMeanTeaching Author:Hampton Fancher
“There's a lot of different ways of going about teaching acting and ultimately you have to just kind of create your own. You have to be the author of your own acting school in a way. I mean you can take from this and this and you can watch people and you can watch performances on the stage. You can watch movies. But ultimately you have to figure it out for yourself.” PeopleKindMeanDifferentSchoolActingTeaching Author:Annette Bening
“I'm an ex-Catholic priest. I have such a complex relationship to Catholicism. On the one hand, if I called myself a Catholic it would have to be a very unorthodox one, as I just don't believe all of the teachings of the Church. But on the other hand, I'm an educated man because the Catholic Church educated me. It gave me something that is really important to me. So I always think about my faith. I always have it, and sometimes I can't talk about it, and sometimes I can. I am like an adolescent in that way. Teens are asking questions: who is God and what does it mean to have faith?” ThinkingMenBelieveMeanImportantSometimesChurchTeachingCatholicEducatedCatholicismHave Faith Author:Benjamin Alire Saenz
“I don't think it's possible to teach a person to be an artist. But yet, I'm here, and I suppose this is what I'm expected to do. I teach a course called graphic narrative and one called digital studios, but no matter the topic, the basic principle underlying my "method" of teaching is that a properly prepared artist/creator must simply know everything. Not just how to draw, but how to see. Not just how to use a computer program, but what the word "penultimate" means. And the shape and orientation of a goat's pupil. And where Kentucky and Chile are, at least approximately.” ThinkingMeanArtistTeachTeachingComputerProgramGraphic Author:Phoebe Gloeckner
“The more I do this creative work teaching the "Personal Creativity in Business" course at Stanford the more I realize that business is about people in groups being creative in their own way. If business creativity does not allow individual development, then it isn't sustainable. But if business creativity means people bringing out their best and developing that, then amazing things can happen - not only for the business but also more importantly for the individual and the surrounding community.” PeopleMeanIndividualRealizingCommunityCreativityCreativeTeachingBe CreativeMean PeopleCreative Work Author:Michael Ray
“What I don't like about teaching is hearing myself say the same thing. I mean, you just want to sort of shoot yourself after a while. But you don't have a million different ways of thinking about what you have been thinking about for many years. And then there's the truism that you're only as good as your students. If they're not into what's going on, it doesn't matter who you are.” ThinkingMeanDifferentTeachingStudentsWho You AreTruism Author:Lynne Tillman
“The most important change, and it's been going on for at least three decades, is the increasing "professionalization," if that's a word, of the faculty. By professionalization I mean the tendency of faculty members to have Ph.D.'s in their academic specialties, and for these specialties to be ever more narrowly defined. The higher-rated schools may have chief executives in residence or retired execs on three-year teaching fellowships, but the days when most faculty members had considerable prior experience as businessmen or women - those days are mostly over.” MeanImportantSchoolTeachingAcademicBusinessmanRetired Author:Walter Kiechel
“I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are.” FeelsYearsMeanBookCountryDoneKidsJobsCultureReadingUnderstandingTeachTeachingHavensNeededTasteCriticismWho We AreTaste In Music Author:Wynton Marsalis
“When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right.” WayMeanChristSimpleTeachingAnd LoveNaive Author:Moby
“It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed to hide your light under a bushel.” MeanLightSeemsCoursesChristTeaching Author:Moby
“In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?” MeanDoeEndsMomentsAblePainHateWishSeeingTeachingSittingPainfulKneesDiscouragementPainful Experiences Author:Sharon Salzberg