Teaching Quotes
Sad Quotes about Teaching

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen

Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead

The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France

When a father, absent during the day,
returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament,
not his teaching.
- Robert Bly

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain

Much education today is monumentally ineffective.
All too often we are giving young people cut flowers
when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
- John W. Gardner

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives
when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
- Jimmy Carter

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done,
and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
- Ann Richards

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
- Knute Rockne

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
- Bill O'Reilly

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like
the blind leading the one-eyed.
- A. J. Liebling

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society,
and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
- Gail Godwin

I teach well.
I used to really like teaching a lot.
I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
- Art Garfunkel

What office is there which involves more responsibility,
which requires more qualifications, and which ought,
therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
- Harriet Martineau

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential,
craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church,
I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
- James Weldon Johnson

There is no teaching to compare with example.
- Robert Powell

The processes of teaching the child that everything
cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both
to him and to his teacher.
- Anne Sullivan Macy

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream.
You are seeing my dream come true.
- Louise Fletcher

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative,
hands-on experiences.
- Edward Tufte

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect
for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
- Timothy Radcliffe

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids
to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
- Loretta Lynn

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven,
which was the main teaching of Jesus,
is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines
that ever stirred and changed human thought.
- H. G. Wells

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy
teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
- Eric Hoffer

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books,
but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
- Joseph Smith, Jr.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.
- George Stigler

The causes of youth violence are working parents who
put their kids into daycare,
the teaching of evolution in the schools,
and working mothers who take birth control pills.
- Tom DeLay

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ,
and they're out there, and I wonder,
who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?
- Willie Aames

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very
mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
- Helen Garner

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why
he needs the Christian teaching.
- Alfred A. Montapert

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through
a joke than grave teaching.
- Baltasar Gracian

Teaching is the royal road to learning.
- Jessamyn West

My reading is extremely eclectic.
Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics,
so I'm reading a lot about that.
I read books of trivia, of facts.
- Jack Prelutsky

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country
life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and
getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
- Laurie Lee

You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball,
not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
- Oscar Robertson

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth.
How can we advance when they teach things like that?
- Taslima Nasrin

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and
most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read.
Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
- William Bennett

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.
- Harri Holkeri

There was no division I could see between the essential
teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
- Cat Stevens

I just had to plod along without having any teaching,
which was a pity.
- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

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.
- Andrew Greeley

I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching
an online course and by traveling,
listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
- Sally Schneider

We have the Troops to Teachers program,
which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
- Ralph Regula

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from
my public life back to the life of teaching and writing
that I had always wanted.
But things didn't work out that way.
- Charles Van Doren

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors.
A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching.
A few get involved with administrative duties.
- John Cameron

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary
school in a small town in Missouri.
- Dan Simmons

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be -
a messy business.
- Harry Crews

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham,
the last year she was teaching.
- Twyla Tharp

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
- Al Jourgensen

There is all the difference in the world between teaching
children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
- Polly Toynbee

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.
- John Engler

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
- John Milton

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.
- Randall Terry

TV is bigger than any story it reports.
It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
- Fred W. Friendly

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a
flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom,
democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
- Roger Nash Baldwin

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.
- Erno Rubik

More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie
for teaching me how to perform.
- Tony Bennett

I do not believe there is a problem in this country
or the world today which could not be settled if approached
through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
- Harry S. Truman

History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
- Thucydides

Those who have no record of what their forebears have
accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from
the teaching of biography and history.
- Carter G. Woodson

Delaware State began as a school bent on service -
teaching education,
social services and nursing.
- Michael N. Castle

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess
themselves the pupils of history,
anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
- Douglas Hurd

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance,
not administration and management.
- Cheryl Crawford

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
- Gilbert Highet

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities;
ideas generated there filter down through the teaching
profession and the students into the general public.
- B. Carroll Reece

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.
- Paul Rodriguez

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.
- Margaret E. Sangster

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and
relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine
head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
- Neil Cavuto

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers,
I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.
- John Engler

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