Quotes by Teaching I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left. John Wooden teachingbelieveschool Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all. Jonathan Kozol teachingteacheryears There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are. Jonathan Kozol teachingpeopleschool Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other. Jonathan Edwards learningteachingteacher God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him. Joni Eareckson Tada growing-uphateteaching When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who do not have any teaching background. A coach is nothing more than a teacher. I used to encourage anyone who wanted to coach to get a degree in teaching so they could apply those principles to athletics. John Wooden teachingteachersports We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid...it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song. Jorma Kaukonen teachingwritingsong Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues. Josef Pieper teachingreligiouslittles He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth. Jose Ortega y Gasset honestyteachingtruth To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching. Joseph Barber Lightfoot righteousnessteachingpeople When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years. Josef Albers teachingjobsyears Nothing has happened in education until it has happened to a student. Joseph Carroll learningstudentsteaching When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time. Joni Mitchell teachingsongart A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. Joseph Collins experienceteachingwise Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Jonathan Swift girlteachingteacher What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and an ability to convince them that what they are being taught is deadly serious Joseph Epstein satisfactionteachingteacher The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery. Joseph Fourier teachingmathdiscovery We accept without reservation the scriptural teachings that Christ is the Son of God and that he came into the world to ransom men from the spiritual and temporal death brought into the world by the fall of Adam. No one can state too plainly or emphasize too strongly this eternal truth that salvation is in Christ and that it comes because of his atoning sacrifice. Nor can we set forth too clearly the gospel truth that we also must do certain things to be saved. Joseph Fielding Smith teachingspiritualfall For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men. Joseph Fielding Smith teachingspiritualchristian Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service. Joseph Hertz dedicationisraelteaching«9293949596979899100101102»
