Quotes by Teaching The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live. Alexander Sutherland Neill teachingeducationchildren One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never. Alexandre Dumas teachingeducationmath Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it. Alfie Kohn taughtstudentsteaching The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do. Alfie Kohn learningteachingteacher In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals. Alfie Kohn responsibilityteachingchildren Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching. Alfred Armand Montapert teachingchristianmen These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted. Alfred Korzybski self-esteemteachinggiving I've always loved teaching acting. I think it helps me to kind of get back to basics. It's like a refresher course for me as well, so in a sense, I'm hopefully learning as much as my students are - or at least discovering or re-discovering as much as they are. I find that when I teach, I'm reminded of my own sort of failings. I'm reminded of where I sometimes keep going wrong. Alfred Molina actingteachingthinking In all education the main cause of failure is staleness. Alfred North Whitehead failurecausesteaching Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world. Alfred North Whitehead intellectualteachingmath I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance. Alfred North Whitehead fashionteachingteacher The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality. Alfred North Whitehead teachingnumbersideas I am a part of all whom I have met. Alfred the Great metsteaching The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings. Ali Khamenei islamicteachingrights Power corrupts. If the Church is given too much power, it will become corrupted. So to keep the Church in line with the teachings of Christ, we must make sure that it can never have temporal power. Religion has its place and politics has its own. These two should not be mixed together or the result would be catastrophic. Ali Sina churchteachingtwo There is a fundamental difference between Jesus and Muhammad and their teachings. When the Jews brought a prostitute to Christ and asked him what to do with her because the law says stone her, Jesus said, let the one who has not committed any sin throw the first stone. This is a great teaching. To be happy as human beings, we don't need lots of laws. All we need are few good teachings and this is one of them. Ali Sina teachinglawjesus No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution. Alice Hegan Rice teachingmindworld Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older. Alice Mattison importantteaching Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much. Alice Moore Hubbard teachingteacherchildren I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers. Alice Walker circlesteachingmeaningful«1234567891011»
