Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Shorten

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

Bill Crawford

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

C. S. Lewis

In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

Carl Rogers

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Jean de la Bruyere

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.

C. Everett Koop

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

Fritz Zwicky

To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole.

Frederic Bastiat

It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire-learned from the teachings of antiquity-that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.

Christina Hoff Sommers

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Gilbert Highet

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

Hans Frank

I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I do not know what the future holds. I do not wish to sound negative, but I wish to remind you of the warnings of scripture and the teachings of the prophets which we have had constantly before us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

Jeremy Collier

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Jeff Goldblum

I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

Jean Toomer

One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

Jean Vanier

I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

Grover Cleveland

All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.

Gil Scott-Heron

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

Harri Holkeri

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

Horace Bushnell

It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from His character. The greatest triumph of the Gospel is Christ Himself--a human body become the organ of the Divine nature, and revealing, under the conditions of an earthly life, the glory of God.

Hugh Grant

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

Howie Mandel

I don't know if I'm teaching my kids right, but you have to go with your own instincts. You can't be so sure that other people are going to do right by you.

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.

Giancarlo Esposito

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.