“I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week class for older adults), and I don't really know what my teaching style is yet.” KnowsWritingChildrenSchoolClassCreativeWeekTeachingStyleHavensTaughtSummerAdultsEightCreative WritingWorkshopsElementary SchoolOlder Adults Author:Mary J. Miller
“I taught for a semester, but couldn't work out my teaching schedule with my acting schedule because they just didn't jive. So, I had to make a decision. And by sheer luck, I'm sure, I have not stopped working as an actor.” ActorsDecisionActingTeachingTaughtLuckWork OutSheerSchedulesSemester Author:Danny Burstein
“Sometime during the 1990s, when I was teaching philosophy at UCSD, my friend, colleague, and music teacher, Carol Plantamura, discussed the possibility of teaching a course together looking at ways in which various literary works (plays, stories, novels) had been treated as operas, and how different themes emerged in the opera and in its original. One of the pairings we planned to use was Mann's great novella and Britten's opera. Unfortunately, the course was never taught, but the idea remained with me.” WayIdeasDifferentPhilosophyPlayStoriesUseTogetherCoursesNovelTeacherTeachingPossibilityTaughtMy FriendsOriginalsVariousTreatedThemeOperaColleaguesCarolsLiterary WorksMusic TeacherWork Play Author:Philip Kitcher
“I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.” DoneJobsTeachingTaughtDaughterMakeupLipstickBad Jobs Author:Viola Davis
“The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.” PeopleMenHas BeensHateCultureNamesLeftBlackWhiteTeachingTaughtWalkingSlaveryBlack PeopleMuhammadDead ManBrainwashedElijahWalking DeadElijah Muhammad Author:Muhammad Ali
“I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point I was teaching more of the Sivananda system and just pushing it up a little bit to make it a little more rajasic a little more active, a little more physical. People would come, and feel great, and by the time I left Colorado in 1980 I'd taught pretty much everyone in town - the ski patrol, ski instructors, the bar owners.” PeopleFeelsLittlesLeftBitsTeachingTaughtLittle BitYogaTownsWinterActiveBarsParksOwnersPushingSkisColoradoInstructorsSkiersPushing It Author:Beryl Bender Birch
“Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.” PeopleDifferentBeliefTeachingTaughtBuddhismCircumstancesAbsolutesCreatorDifferent PeoplesNegation Author:Dalai Lama
“Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.” ReligiousTeachingTaughtDivineCommunicationDirectJewTestamentConfrontationOld TestamentDivine WillReligious Truth Author:Gordon Fee
“I can't speak for other photographers, but the photographers who went forward strongly when the so-called "official" part of their career ended, to me, were those who had taught. Teaching enriches and enlivens one's work.” I CanSpeakCareersTeachingTaughtPhotographerOfficials Author:Sam Abell
“I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how this stuff works. I bring all that stuff to teaching now.” StuffProcessGroupsTeachingTaughtProfessorsSmall GroupsSeminars Author:Paul Beatty
“I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.” IfsWantedReligiousBreakImagineTeachingTaughtNormalMy FamilyImpactExpected Author:Wendy C. Ortiz
“I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on it for seven years. I was putting into words the stuff I was teaching, and I was writing it up and thought, "Dude, you're writing a book."” KnowsWritingYearsBookWarStuffClassWrittenTeachingTaughtAmountDrugSevenNonfictionSeven YearsWriting A BookWar On Drugs Author:Ayelet Waldman
“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 love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach.” ThinkingWayWantImportantFightingLove IsTeachTeachingExampleTaughtMomWhat's ImportantBeing A MomBeing CoolLove Being A MomI Love Being A Mom Author:Alicia Keys
“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
“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
“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
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” InspirationalArtSchoolLostPowerfulEducationTeachTeacherTeachingTaughtTraditionRegardAppreciationGreat TeacherGood TeacherBest TeacherTeaching ChildrenGreat EducationTeaching And LearningEducation And TeachersSchool TeachersAdministratorsSchools And EducationSchool EducationGreat EducationalTeaching And EducationTeachers And TeachingTeaching EducationSchool LifeTeaching LearningInspirational TeacherInspirational EducationArt EducationGreat TeachingBeing A TeacherGood TeachingTeachers DayTeacher AppreciationInspirational EducationalArt TeacherThanking TeachersGreat SchoolsSchools And TeachersLost ArtThank You TeacherTeaching ArtRetired TeacherWonderful TeacherRetiring TeachersTeacher MotivationalShort TeacherTeacher Appreciation DayTeacher Retirement Author:Jacques Barzun
“You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.” PeoplePersonsFactsLearningInfluenceTeachingAwarenessTaughtInspirational LifeInfluentialInfluencing PeopleDilbertInfluential PeopleInfluential Person Author:Scott Adams
“One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'” BelieveTeachingTaughtTheologyTaught Us Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” WellsSchoolRememberScienceTimeEducationKnowledgeTeachKnowingTeachingTaughtCollegeEducationalGraduatesGraduationAdmirableSchoolingSchooledGreat EducationTeaching And LearningCommencementSchools And EducationSchool EducationGreat EducationalChildren LearningInspirational EducationFunny GraduationKnowledge EducationEducation And KnowledgeCollege GraduatesChildren EducationHigh School GraduationInspirational GraduationInspirational EducationalFunny CommencementKnowledge And LearningKnowledge LearningInspirational High School GraduationEducation For AllFree EducationLearning KnowledgeCollege GraduationImportance Of EducationInspirational LearningTraining And EducationMimicryFirst Day Of SchoolWhat Is EducationConvocationAcademic EducationGood High School GraduationBest SchoolCool GraduationMotivational GraduationEarning ItGreat KnowledgeInspirational School Author:Oscar Wilde