Quotes by Teaching Every teaching position, every missionary position can be held by single people. We welcome to that kind of service people who are struggling with any kind of temptation when the struggle is a good struggle and they are living so as to be appropriate teachers, or missionaries, or whatever the calling may be. Dallin H. Oaks teachingstruggleteacher I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to teach myself how to do plot and scene. My first story collection had the most issues with the plotlessness, and when I was writing my second collection I was teaching myself how to make things happen. Dan Chaon teachingwritingyears The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next. Dan Fogelberg nextteachingeducation The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching. Dan Kimball paradigmtaughtteaching It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri Dan Simmons teachingyearsschool When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket. Dan Snow teachingfireteacher Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job. Dana Goldstein moralintellectualteaching Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people. I've even talked to people who didn't necessarily go into teaching thinking they wanted to work at a charter school or even may have been considered critics of the charter school movement, and found that it was the only way for them to get their foot in the door. So young people just have much more familiarity with the concept. Dana Goldstein teachingteacherschool There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors. And yet there's this political conversation - this reform conversation - that paints a very negative picture of the effectiveness of the teaching population. So there's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers. Dana Goldstein teachingteacherthinking There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers. Dana Goldstein teachingteacherthinking When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering. Dana Goldstein teachingteacherthinking My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students. Dana Spiotta smartteachingbrain My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer. Dana Spiotta teachinggivingthinking Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too. Dani Shapiro creatingteachingmemories If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with? Danica McKellar fashiongirlteaching I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming. Danica McKellar teachingwritingbook Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others. Daniel Goleman emotionalteachingteacher There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea. Daniel Handler vegetablesteachingsea Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others. Dannion Brinkley encouragementhelping-othersteaching I taught for a semester, but couldn't work out my teaching schedule with my acting schedule because they just didn't jive. So, I had to make a decision. And by sheer luck, I'm sure, I have not stopped working as an actor. Danny Burstein work-outdecisionteaching«3233343536373839404142»
