Quotes by Teaching I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better teaching, to a greater extent than you might think. Folks who don't have an active intellectual life become, though the long years of just teaching, less intellectually alive and exciting. Nicholas Lemann teachingyearsthinking To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence. Nicholas Murray Butler teachingreligiouschristian The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation. Nicholas Murray Butler democracyteachingappreciation Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. Nicholas Negroponte peerscomputerteaching While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself. Nicholas Negroponte wheelsteachingteacher The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable... Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature of an enlightened person. They are the four aspects of true love within ourselves and within everyone and everything. Nhat Hanh compassionteachingjoy There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching. Nhat Hanh realteachingpeople A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it. Nelson Mandela governmentteachinguse Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. Niccolo Machiavelli natureambitionteaching I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice. Nhat Hanh buddhistbuddhismteaching The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas. Nhat Hanh teachingmindtrying The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching. Nhat Hanh teachingcharacterpeople My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it. Nelson Mandela fightingteachingwhite I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking. Nhat Hanh teachingbookchildren It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon. Don't maistake the finger for the moon. The raft is not the shore. If we cling to the raft, if we cling to the finger, we miss everything. We cannot, in the name of the finger or the raft kill each other. Human life is more precious than any ideology, any doctrine. Nhat Hanh moonteachingnames Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: “Just be cool. Don’t be an asshole. Nick Offerman being-coolteachingreligious Teaching is the ability to inspire learning. Nick Saban abilityteachinginspire The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance. Nhat Hanh ignorancerealteaching My position on the issue of homosexuality is no different from the position of the Anglican Church and all the major denominations around the world. I know that it's different from the secular culture in the western world, but it's no different from the teaching of the church globally. We're Christians basically. Nicky Gumbel issuesteachingchristian Probably one of the strongest movements of the Holy Spirit is in the Roman Catholic Church, so there's not a huge theological difference between the official teaching of the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church. Nicky Gumbel catholicdifferencesteaching«126127128129130131132133134135136»
