“My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.” YearsSchoolSocialCitiesCareersStudyTeachingHigh SchoolYears AgoRetiredSocial StudiesInner CityYounger SisterTeaching History Author:Judy Woodruff
“20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting, though still a tricky proposition, is much easier.” YearsStillsMysteryTeachingFieldsEasierYears AgoStartingThanksBobPropositionsTrickyCopywriting Author:Ken McCarthy
“Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius.” YearsTwoBookViewsKnownFiveGenerationsTeachingMastersThousandGloryHundredYears AgoLifetimeFollowersDedicatedScornHandfulFuture Generation Author:Confucius
“I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.” PeopleYearsLooksSaidHardTeachingYears AgoDrawing Author:David Hockney
“Quantum physics is teaching us that particles themselves don't create particles. It's what Jesus said 2,000 years ago, that it's the Spirit that gives life and that you don't get particles from more particles.” GivingYearsSaidSpiritJesusTeachingYears AgoPhysicsQuantumParticlesQuantum Physics Author:Wayne Dyer
“We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught me that to be on a spiritual path meant that you needed to be poor, because that was proving your allegiance to God. So growing up with that kind of teaching from her was a real struggle for me, also.” ThinkingYearsKindRealSpiritualMy OwnPoorStruggleGrowing UpPathTeacherGrowingTeachingTaughtDevelopmentNeededProveYears AgoPsychicsAllegianceSpiritual Path Author:Echo Bodine
“I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansImportantDifferentPhilosophyShowsFeelingsEasyHurtHuman BeingsPathTeachingFiguresStudentsYears AgoTasksHonestlyI've LearnedClassroomImprovingScopeEasy Tasks Author:Tod Goldberg
“I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.” WayYearsFeltSpaceTeachingAuthorityYears AgoFifteenFifteen Years Author:Sandra Cisneros
“If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.” IfsYearsTodayFiveTeachingFieldsYears AgoFive Years Author:Noam Chomsky
“If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time was spent on teaching children how to describe (in simple modern English) the method whereby ethylene was converted into polythene in 1933 in the ICI laboratories at Northwich, and to discussing the enormous social changes which have resulted from this discovery, then I believe that we should be training future leaders in this country to face the world of tomorrow far more effectively than we are at the present time.” IfsWorldShouldYearsBelieveChildrenLittlesCountryFacesScienceI BelieveSocialSimpleLeaderHistoryTeachingModernTomorrowFutureTrainingResearchDiscoveryYears AgoLettersMethodEnormousBritainMore TimeDevotedSocial ChangeTranslationsLaboratoryDescribingDiscussingPresent TimeTeaching ChildrenJuliusFuture LeadersModern English Author:Ronald Sydney Nyholm