Quotes by Teaching The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind. Marilyn Ferguson learningteachingmind We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention. Marilyn Ferguson learningteachingtwo A person's wound is where their passion is born. Marilyn Hamilton passionteachingpersonality You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. Marilyn Hacker teachingfriendshipmean I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts. Marilyn Hacker everydayteachingwriting I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. Marilyn Hacker teachingwritingmean I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bureaucratic aspects of the job. However, if you are teaching fervently, your energy and time are used up at a great rate. Margaret Atwood energyteachingliterature A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road. Marianne Williamson humilityresponsibilityteaching Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be trite by its nature. Of course, read a lot, write a lot. The kind of advice I wish I had been given is all of a practical nature, having to do with publishers and agents. Margaret Atwood teachingwritingpeople In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her regular classes. Because she was teaching, of course, Macbeth, and a number of them had murdered people. The guy who wrote the best paper said, "You do have this, 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?' before you do it, but in my case it was a gun." Margaret Atwood gunteachingclass You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. Mario Vargas Llosa creativityteachingwriting Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education. Marion Brady teachingknowslittles How can we give if there is nothing there?... Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved. Teaching cannot come from the unlearned. And most important of all, spiritual guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak. Marion G. Romney teachingspiritualgiving What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife? Marion Zimmer Bradley ignoranceteachingwise A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching. Mark Barnes peersteachingteacher I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings. Marianne Williamson teachingreligiousbelieve If you have no interest in actually committing yourself to an actual group of gospel-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, you might question whether you belong to the body of Christ at all! Mark Dever teachingchristianbelieve Don't believe false teaching that says you won't suffer if you really love Jesus. Jesus will end all suffering eventually, but on earth he suffered more than anyone. Mark Driscoll teachingbelievejesus Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority. Mark Kostabi meritnobleteaching Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you... ? Mark Lepper raises-questionslearningteaching«111112113114115116117118119120121»
