Quotes by Teaching At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me. Barnaby Keeney collegeteachingschool God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time informed, he desires to enlighten by his special grace. What must we think of a revelation which, far from teaching us any thing, is calculated to darken and puzzle the clearest ideas? Baron d'Holbach teachingideasthinking I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart-breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling. Barry Long teachinglifebelieve The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by persuading the understanding through reasons, and by gently attracting or exhorting the will. Bartolome de las Casas understandingteachingmen Since God alone provides the means for the successful accomplishment of any task, it seems evident that a person needs to be called by God to be an effective teacher. Without this call to teaching, how will anyone be able to put up with everything that teachers face daily? Basil Moreau teachingteachermean Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one. Bel Kaufman teachingeducationjobs I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own. Bel Kaufman teachingwritinglong ... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere. Bel Kaufman good-teacherteachingteacher I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom. Bell Hooks movementteachingpractice Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on. Bell Hooks teachingcommitmentmoving Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance...A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love. Bell Hooks teachinglovemoving I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy. Bell Hooks teachingstrugglegiving Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting. Bell Hooks teachingwhiteschool I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out. Others are in prison. But in many cases they practice the teachings much better than those who meet me every day. Bell Hooks realteachingpractice Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence. Ben Goldacre teachingpracticeteacher There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others. Ben Goldacre medicinedifferencesteaching No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master. Ben Jonson teachingwisemen Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master. Ben Jonson teachingwisemen With students, one is often in the position where you have to be authoritative about what they're doing and connected to some principle. I prefer not really knowing the answer to anything interesting and I try to encourage that in teaching. If I start to feel certain about something my curiosity goes away, my mind shuts down. I'm sure that's not always true, it's stupid to generalise. Ben Marcus teachingstupidinteresting Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away. Ben Marcus teachingwritingthinking«1112131415161718192021»
