Teaching Quotes (470 Quotes)


    It's not just working hard, it's thinking about things, really looking to be a learner. I guess the word is 'enthusiasm' not just for their education but for life itself. It makes you understand what teaching is all about.

    It's been very overwhelming, yet nice to know that other researchers here at ISU are willing to work with me on a multitude of projects. This semester I am hoping to get more extension and research focus, in addition to the teaching I did first semester.

    He loved teaching, whether it was football or academically. He was always laughing and telling jokes but he still got his point across. Clayton was one of the first coaches who tried to make in fun and he saw the wisdom in that.

    There are legitimate reasons for not meeting deadlines. Sometimes professors may not know which classes they will be teaching. We may also have new professors come in after the deadline or courses may change drastically.




    Unfortunately, the proponents of censorship won out by inflaming false fears that this critical analysis lesson plan is the equivalent of teaching intelligent design.


    Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

    This thing at Duke isn't going to wake up anything. You'd like to think that it would. You'd like to think this is one of those things that you talk to your kids about at home, that it's a teaching moment. But here's what people want to know about it - that it didn't happen, or that it didn't happen as it was first reported. And that's the unfortunate part - because something wrong happened there.


    I'm hoping he's going to respond in the correct manner, and so far he has. I've always thought of every moment as a teaching moment. Unfortunately, sometimes teaching moments have to come in some adverse situations and circumstances.

    The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy

    Education is a significant part of our mission here at the Tyler Museum of Art. This exhibition was organized to recognize the contributions these artists make every day in their chosen profession of teaching art.



    The essence of teaching, the soul of the art, is being brave enough, psychologically unencumbered enough, to see exactly what is taking place in the minds of your students at any given moment and then--like a good psychotherapist--speak to and through their defenses to uncover the true promise of the lesson, its hidden meaning. This significance will almost always be different from what you originally took it to be and at odds with the lesson plan. But that is what makes teaching a creative act. One doesn't just dispense information--one brings insight into being. I am surprised by what I teach all the time.

    I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

    Much of what has been called religion has an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rule and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.



    The good news is that we're getting closer. The bad news is we're not there yet. One of the good things is that we now have a late-game situation so we can do some teaching off of it.



    This is a historic opportunity in this global environment for Michigan teachers to work in Taiwan, teaching English to children there, then return to their classrooms in Michigan with a greater knowledge to share with our students here.

    We have been a district that looks to technology as a tool to facilitate learning and teaching. In this case, DIBELS may save our teachers time with regards to scoring and record-keeping, thereby allowing them to spend more time focusing on instruction.

    Creationism is not biology and has no place in a biology class. What makes it wrong is not the theory of creationism, but the teaching of creationism as part of a science class.





    The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.


    Many of the patients from these communities are poor, have multiple medical problems requiring additional support, and depend on government assistance for survival. Teaching hospitals consistently step up to the plate to care for these patients as part of their missions, and frequently lose significant money in the process.

    To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

    I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.


    I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.

    The courses I took were very rigorous and demanding, teaching me how to draw from real life. I started to get bored with that mode of expression as I found it to be too repetitive. I was looking to push myself to do something different and abstract art seemed to be the perfect outlet for that.

    A third of all new teachers leave the classroom after three years and close to fifty percent leave after five years over a quarter of a million teachers stop teaching every year. Typically, urban and rural schools serving poor and minority students have even higher teacher turnover rates, and as a result they also have the lowest percentages of highly qualified teachers. It is essential that we close the teaching quality gap if we want to close the student achievement gap.

    The program isn't growing in leaps and bounds, but it is a pretty stable growth. It takes a faculty member a lot of time to convert a class curriculum into an online format fit for teaching.



    After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

    I enjoy it very much and it helps keep me active. I like to be busy, and teaching is a two-way street. I have the opportunity to help others and in turn I learn from the young minds who are in our classes. We have to get more young people involved in helping to perpetuate the arts in this area.

    Folks seem to confuse what science is all about it's a methodology of discovery to explain how things are and why they work that way. Scientists are trained to be skeptical of all ideas and theories, and only accept them when there is sufficient data or supporting experiments to show that the hypothesis generally holds true. Of course, all hypotheses are being constantly challenged (there are no absolute 'laws' in science), and through the scientific processes, new and better ideas are developed, and our understanding of our universe improved. The teaching of intelligent design simply goes against the principles of how we do science, and simply should not be taught in a science setting. ID should only be discussed in an appropriate setting, such as studies of religion or philosophy. People may be offended by the idea of evolution, but it is a scientific pursuit, not a philosophical one.

    Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.


    What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?

    I cannot explain to another the joy and the happiness I get out of teaching. It is more than a profession, an occupation, a vocation, a struggle it is a passion, for I love to teach. ... I love to teach as a painter loves to paint, as a singer loves to si



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