Quotes by Teaching There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge. Avicenna disease teaching teacher I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on it for seven years. I was putting into words the stuff I was teaching, and I was writing it up and thought, "Dude, you're writing a book." Ayelet Waldman teaching war book I have two little girls, four and one. My four-year-old is obsessed with makeup, and not through me! All on her own. But ultimately I'm teaching her that it's not a necessity; it's a treat. It's a tool that you can use to transform yourself. I think that's important. You don't need the makeup. It just makes you feel fun and allows you to be creative. That's what I love about it. Ayesha Curry girl teaching fun To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason. Ayn Rand college teaching men The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. Ayn Rand live-life teaching inspirational I feel like there is an emphasis against teaching geography in American schools. Americans don't say, "I'm going to Germany." They say, "I'm going to Europe." Ayshay teaching europe school When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules. Azar Nafisi revolution teaching struggle My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching. Azar Nafisi passion teaching book 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 teaching running ideas That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. B. F. Skinner contingency behavior teaching Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching. B. F. Skinner teaching teacher needs Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life. B. F. Skinner tasks teaching teacher People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy. B. J. Fogg effort teaching people Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause of this disease. We practice casteism and we observe Untouchability because we are enjoined to do so by the Hindu religion. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar. B. R. Ambedkar teaching practice sweet You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill. Baba Hari Dass hunters teaching teacher We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves. Baba Hari Dass inspiration teaching spiritual I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country. Bainbridge Colby teaching teacher country The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things. Bal Gangadhar Tilak teaching struggle men Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. Baltasar Gracian humor teaching teacher Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason. Now I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all. Barack Obama teaching religious law «910111213141516171819»
