Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Gardner

It may well be easier to remember a list if one sings it (or dances to it). However, these uses of the 'materials' of an intelligence are essentially trivial. What is not trivial is the capacity to think musically.

Howard Gardner

What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.

Howard Gardner

We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.

Howard Gardner

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

Howard Gardner

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

Hosea Ballou

Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

Horace

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

Horace

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

Jean Cocteau

The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.

Jean Cocteau

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Garry Winogrand

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

Garry Winogrand

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

Garry Winogrand

Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.

Garry Winogrand

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

Garry Winogrand

I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.

Garry Winogrand

Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work.

Frederick Douglass

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin....

Felix Adler

It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.

Fawn M. Brodie

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Ezra Taft Benson

Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching them to others? Could we defend the Constitution? Can we recognize when a law is constitutionally unsound? Do we know what the prophets have said about the Constitution and the threats to it?

Eugenie Scott

I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, "We shouldn't be teaching creationism." Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

Francis Chan

I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings.

Francis Chan

...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

Francis Chan

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

Robert Frost

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Jean Piaget

The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.

Jean Piaget

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Jim Henson

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

Jim Harrison

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

Jim Harrison

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

Jim Gaffigan

A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.

Robert Kiyosaki

Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.

I am a part of all whom I have met.