Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daphne Koller

Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

Amos Bronson Alcott

None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

Anthony Doerr

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

Alvin Ailey

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Anne Rice

It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.

Anna Deavere Smith

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Andre Maurois

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently.

Andre Maurois

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Alfie Kohn

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

Andrew Greeley

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Edsger Dijkstra

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

Edsger Dijkstra

I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.

Edsger Dijkstra

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

Aristotle

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

Aristotle

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

Aristotle

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the smallest measure has been accorded to woman, as a result of church teaching. The effect of this is seen in every department of life.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

Dom Starsia

When you watch Canadian kids [Box Lacrosse Players] score, when you see their skill level around the cage, you wonder to yourself, 'Jeez, are we teaching kids [in the U.S.] the wrong things?

Dick York

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

Dave Ramsey

Teaching kids about money is never just about money.

She really couldn't go on teaching after that.

Richard King

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

Charles Spurgeon

I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.

Charles Spurgeon

The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

Charles Spurgeon

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Diane Paulus

I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

Dennis Prager

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Susan B. Anthony

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

Bret Harte

Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!

Bram Stoker

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Bobby Knight

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.