Quotes by Teaching We have been teaching together [with Kaz] now for more than twenty years in sesshins, in international travel programs in Japan and China, as well as intensives on Buddhism that focus on the work of Zen Master Dogen and Ryokan, as well as on many of the Mahayana sutras. Joan Halifax japanbuddhismteaching The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's supposed to teach citizens how to think better, how to think critically, how to tell truth from falsehood, how to make a judgment about when they're being lied to and duped and when they're not, how to evaluate scientific teaching. Losing that training of citizens is an extremely dangerous road to go down. Joan Wallach Scott trainingteachingthinking I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them. Joe Abercrombie learningteachingmistake A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded. Jim Gaffigan groundedkindteaching Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children. Joe Baca teachingteacherchildren The nerds are running the world now. Joe Piscopo teachingrunningteacher Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching. Joe Sacco exhaustingsatisfyingteaching Since I was 18 years old, I have taught the Bible. For the last fifteen or twenty years, I have taught every Sunday when I was home or near my own house, so that would be 35 or 40 times per year. Half of those Sundays, the text comes from the Hebrew Bible. I have had a deep personal interest in the Holy Land and in the teachings of the Hebrew people. God has a special position for the Jewish people, the Hebrews, or whatever. I know the difference between ancient Israel and Judaea, and I know the history. I don't have any problem with the Jewish people. Jimmy Carter sundayteachinghome Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time. Joel Edgerton nextteachingfall I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years of teaching and I hope my students have benefited from it. Joel Greenblatt teachingexercisethinking When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing. Jimmy Carter churchteachingyears Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted. Joe Rogan mmateachingthinking Education is wonderful - it helps you worry about things all over the world. Joey Lauren Adams teachingeducationworry In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring. Johann Friedrich Herbart learningsinteaching The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer. Joey Lauren Adams momteachingeducation Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics. John A. Van de Walle teachingexercisemath Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry. Joe Vitale communicationteachingbook Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more. John Amos Comenius learningteachingteacher Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature. John Allen Paulos teachingliteraturemath The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught. John Amos Comenius learningteachinggiving«8384858687888990919293»
