Teaching Quotes

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities.

Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.

What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.