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I returned, however, with unabated vigour to my work—a more arduous task than anyone can imagine, who has not felt something like the misery of being charged with the care and direction of a set of mischievous, turbulent rebels, whom his utmost exertions cannot bind to their duty; while, at the same time, he is responsible for their conduct to a higher power, who exacts from him what cannot be achieved without the aid of the superior’s more potent authority; which, either from indolence, or the fear of becoming unpopular with the said rebellious gang, the latter refuses to give. I can conceive few situations more harassing than that wherein, however you may long for success, however you may labour to fulfil your duty, your efforts are baffled and set at nought by those beneath you, and unjustly censured and misjudged by those above.
— Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
Teaching remains a heroic act to me, and teachers live a necessary and all-important life. We are killing their spirit with unnecessary pressure and expectation that seem forced and destructive to me. Long ago I was one of them. I still regret I was forced to leave them. My entire body of work is because of men and women like them.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
Though I’ve never met a teacher who was not happy in retirement, I rarely meet one who thinks that their teaching life was not a grand way to spend a human life. The unhappy ones are the young ones, those who must teach in public schools when the whole nation seems at war with the very essence of teaching.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
We have to teach the young that no one is out to do them any favours, even NGOs are formed for some motives, either to steal or to promote a particular person's image or that of an organisation etc.If you must get anything out of anyone, you must come with a bargaining chip.
— Magnus Nwagu Amudi
Jerzy,” said I, turning to the Dean of Students, who was nearby, “You’re experienced in these things, and I’m not. Will you tell me whether it is an unalterable rule in this school for a teacher to lose himself in the middle of the night scrambling to find what he cannot see and what is probably not there?”“Isn’t that what we do in the classroom every day?” said Witskoc. “Yes, I’m afraid that’s how it is. I’d like to see how you can construct a pedagogical context made up of nothing but security and certainties.
— Eric Mace-Tessler, International Understanding, or: The Gap-Year Girl
A good student learns from his teacher. A great student learns to teach himself.
— A.P. Sweet, dead, but dreaming
To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.
— Emily Brontë
The matron glanced at the old man and suppressed a smile. “He is absolutely miserable.” “I enjoy miserable. It gives one a contrast to all the delectabilities of life. But is he housebroken, inpala? He is rather rumpled. He will look well on my ship, but will he wash well? Do professors fray as a general rule? I will not have my ship looking ragged.”“They do tend to fade after a few years of hard use.
— Michelle Franklin
Sorry, lass. Ye have to seize the teachable moments, you know. Carry on.
— Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows
I never thought I'd be a teacher , but when I started doing it, I fell in love with it.
— Amy Rankin, Nobody Thought I Could Do It, But I Showed Them, and So Can You!
Life is a learned skill, but instead of teaching it, our culture force-fills developing minds with long division and capital cities—until, at the end of the mandatory period of bondage that’s hyperbolically called school, we’re sent into the world knowing little about it. And so, left on our own to figure out the most important parts of life, we make mistakes for years until, by the time we’ve learned enough from our stumbling to be effective human beings, it’s time for us to die.
— Neil Strauss, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers
— Pat Conroy
Every lesson is a blessing.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level.
— John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
Teaching Career does not begin with the completion of graduation and post graduation and attaining a degree – it begins the moment one starts caring about learners.
— Kavita Bhupta Ghosh, Wanted Back-Bencher and Last-Ranker Teacher
And if you do see any pirates, I don't want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you understand?
— Alexander McCall Smith, Explosive Adventures
Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.
— John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
Let children wander aimlessly around ideas.
— Sugata Mitra
Teaching starts with Tests.
— Alok Jagawat
Every week I want to learn something new. And every week I want to teach someone something new.
— Chef Edward Lee
And Charles turned around and called back without thinking, 'You know, you're awfully lucky you boys are white.'He didn't know why he said it. It had broken out of him. He'd wanted to speak with love: that was all that he'd asked for that day, but now there was a shocked silence. Oh shit, Charles thought. I'm fired for sure.
— Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You, Charlie Freeman
One thing I more and this is all I have to say...High School is not a separate unit from you. We are apart of you. Every man, woman, and child in this community is a part...Your ways of life in your homes and your town reflect here in the school. You can help us or you can hurt us. Our success depends largely on you. I used to think when I first started teaching school that it was all up to the teachers and the pupils. I have changed my mind. The little island of humanity that is each one of you must unite with other islands and become a mainland if we are to have a successful school.
— Jesse Stuart, The Thread That Runs So True
Aboriginal Okinawan Karate was traditionally taught in modest home Dojos, in small informal groups (sole purpose of teachings revolved around life preservation), in A closely tied supportive environment; unlike main island modern Japanese version with rivalry and competition, instructed in large groups belonging to even larger organizations with pseudo-militaristic hierarchy
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi
If their students aren't learning, then they are not teaching. Adapt to global, auditory, tactile & visual learners.
— Ace Antonio Hall
Didn't care if I wasn't paid for working after school for seven months teaching a 9th grader to read, but when he finally could, priceless! The best times in my life were when I went way beyond my paygrade to service students in need.
— Ace Antonio Hall
My first day of teaching, I got hit in the head with a bandstand & needed 4 stitches. Welcome to #NYCity teaching in the 90s.
— Ace Antonio Hall
But for all of them, regardless of their ability, the responsibility of their education falls to the teacher. And who can fulfill that for every single child? What teacher is capable of that?
— Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller
Students view any teacher who does not bury them under work as some sort of mentally impaired kitten to be kicked aside.
— Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
Placing our attention on providing consistent appreciation, approval, and applause to those we love not only focuses their energy on the good things about themselves but also teaches them to return the favor to us.
— Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage to Be a Stepmom: Finding Your Place Without Losing Yourself
I look at my students and have no trouble picturing just how successful they should be, if only we could remove them from the impetuses that brought them to the facility. If we could move them away from gangs. If we could get them into a rehab that stuck. If we could take them from people who abuse their trust, safety, and bodies.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Juvenile Justice: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition: A Reference Handbook
I think the most important quality of a mentor is that they are open to following students where they want to go. Not always pushing their own agenda.
— Cordelia Jensen, Skyscraping
Whenever you feel short or need of something, give what you want first, and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love or friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may do, but it has always worked for me. I trust that the principle of prosperity is true, and I give what I want. I want money, so I give money, and it comes back in multiples. I want sales, so I help someone else sell something, so sales come to me. I want contacts, and I help someone else get contacts. Like magic, contacts come to me. I heard a saying years ago that went: god does not need to receive, but humans need to give. My rich dad would often say: poor people are more greedy than rich people. He would explain that if a person is rich, that person is providing something that other people wanted...whenever I think people aren't smiling at me, I simply began smiling and saying hello. Like magic, the next thing I know: I'm surrounded by smiling people. It is true that you world is only a mirror of you. So that's why I say, teach and you shall receive.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad
If once he has got the right fingering, plays in good time, with the notes fairly correct, then only pull him up about the rendering; and when he has arrived at that stage, don’t let him stop for the sake of small faults, but point them out to him when he has played the piece through. . . I have always adopted this plan; it soon forms musicians which, after all, is one of the first aims of art and it gives less trouble both to master and pupil.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
There is apparently an easy test to distinguish good schoolteachers from poor ones; ask them what they teach. Poor ones reply, 'I teach French,' or 'I teach physics' or whatever their subject is. Good ones say, 'I teach children.' The teacher here would have fallen into the second group: he taught knowledge to people. Or better, he imparted knowledge, meaning he passed over so that the people who learned from him knew the lessons for themselves.
— Chris Green, Cutting to the Heart
The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc.
— Sunday Adelaja
One major teaching of the Protestants that we the Protestants of today must go back to is the fact that the European Protestants did not emphasize five fold ministry the way we do today. Today our teaching on the five fold ministry only tends to view only those called to the five fold ministry as those called to be ministers, while the rest of the congregation is just viewed as laity who just go to secular jobs.
— Sunday Adelaja
The only fear i have is to die in the middle of the book, what if in next life u left uneducated like millions other, and u never get chance to complete that book.so either I can complete that book and die peacefully,that's not possible because i'm already dead, or i can make millions to zero and be sure to get education in next life, and complete that book.
— Iraniya Naynesh
One of the most significant consequences of the proliferation of tests over the last decades of the 20th century and the first of the 21th has been this tendency of assessment to direct the curriculum. Like a huge magnet, assessment drags curriculum toward it. It should, of course, even if we accept the need for tests, be the other way round: the curriculum should be shaped independent of any consideration of tests: tests should be constructed and administered in another space, both literally and metaphorically, hermetically sealed not only form the teacher’s gaze but also – and even more importantly – from the teacher’s consideration. In practice, though, this never happens. It is inevitable that if you decide regularly to test children's performance on the curriculum, and if, furthermore, you make teacher’s careers and school’s futures depend on the result, the tests will very quickly come to dominate what is taught. Not only the content, but also the style and manner of the teaching will be influenced by the tests. Teaching will be about getting the right answer, irrespective of understanding.
— Gary Thomas, Education: A Very Short Introduction
The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work
— Sunday Adelaja
My feeling is that a good teacher can get results using any method, and that a bad teacher can wreck any method.
— Keith Johnstone
Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity.
— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World
In a classroom, when it’s silent, they’re thinking. You’ve got to give them time to think.
— Harry Gilbert
To fit the individual to live and to function in the institutional life of his day.
— Max Braithwaite, Why Shoot The Teacher
I knew a teacher that kept a calendar on his desk. He didn’t use it for lesson planning though. Instead he was marking time until summer. That’s what prisoners do on walls. They mark the days until they go free. But if you’re marking time as a teacher, you aren’t redeeming the time with your students. A parent drops a child off at the beginning of the year and it’s your job to redeem the time and educate that child. It’s your responsibility to see that child progress throughout the year. The child should be a better student as a result of being in your classroom. You are responsible—for successes and failures—and you have an obligation to students and parents to redeem every precious minute you’re given as an educator.
— Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
Everyone thinks it goes smoothly in everyone else’s house, and theirs is the only place that has problems. I’ll let you in on a secret about teaching: there is no place in the world where it rolls along smoothly without problems. Only in articles and books can that happen.
— Ruth Beechick, You Can Teach Your Child Successfully Paperback
An essential part of teachingis to show how to enjoy learning.
— Phil Mitchell, A Bright New Morning: An American Story
How much verbal garbage there is going out across the air waves and across the pulpits of our land because preachers do not believe the Gospel
—  do not believe that Jesus Christ is the only way.
Life in the Kingdom of God is accepting and knowing Jesus Christ, it is studying and applyingHis teachings to your life.
— Sunday Adelaja
I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.
— John Marmysz
When I took over as chair of the fashion program, I was horrified that only the faculty member was allowed to speak in a critique. I'm talking about perfectly nurturing teachers. But the rule was there would be no call of hands for students to contribute their feedback. It was embedded in the department's culture. That was alarming to me. When I was teaching, I was the least important person in the room as far as I was concerned--my students' points of view mattered most. I wanted to learn who they were and teach them to respect one another's perspectives.I would start off by saying something like, "I am having trouble understanding how this work solves the problem at hand. Here are some things about the work that I appreciate: X, Y, Z. But I see these virtues independent of the problem we're solving.
— Tim Gunn
grades really cover up failure to teach.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
— Carla H. Krueger
One of the hardest things for a teacher is to know when to keep quiet and when to let go. It is a terrible thing to hold someone back from success, or to insist on sharing credit, or to tie someone to your apron strings. We need to have faith that we have done all we can, and then we need to kick our birds out of the nest.
— Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor: A Master Class on Mentoring, Motivating, and Making It Work!
Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.
— Fiore Dei Liberi
As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department.
— Earl Lovelace
The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.
— Stuart Sherman
Educators are spiritual beings—we are on earth to make a difference.
— Holly Elissa Bruno, The Comfort of Little Things: An Educator's Guide to Second Chances
I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.
— David Kahn
Good teaching gains its authority from having consistent and repeated support from multiple scriptural sources, and it builds a firm base for our unity and our confidence in Christ.
— Reid A. Ashbaucher, The Christian Faith: A Quick Guide to Understanding its Inter-Workings
One of the hallmarks of great teachers is that they rejoice when their students surpass them. Encouraging an atmosphere of questioning and inviting people to grow within your classroom isn’t necessarily easy
—  which must explain why people who want to create cults or die hard followers discourage questioning in general. They would rather have people reciting their dogma than asking hard questions.
Our professional competence and pride should rest not alone in our possession of knowledge but as well in our ability to communicate it. Of course we shall carry on our research, and of course we shall applaud the colleague who 'produces,' but we shan't be happy if he offers that as a substitute for inspiring young people with a desire for knowledge, a sense of taste, and a regard for virtue.
— Denham Sutcliffe
Teach men how to fish, but also teach them how to preserve fish.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Make a better mousetrap and the world will know it
—  it can measure and applaud your skill. Make a better man and the world will say he did it himself.
It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.
— Octavia E. Butler
If you treat every question like you've never heard it before, your students feel like you respect them and everyone learns a lot more. Including the teacher.
— Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl
Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone’s core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.
— Abraham Kuyper
Life is not trying to entertain us, it's trying to teach us.
— Seth Adam Smith
First day of your teaching you are to stand at your classroom door and let your students know how happy you are to see them. Stand, I say. Any playwright will tell you that when the actor sits down the play sits down. The best move of all is to establish yourself as a presence and to do it outside in the hallway. Outside, I say. That’s your territory and when you’re out there you’ll be seen as a strong teacher, fearless, ready to face the swarm. That’s what a class is, a swarm. And you’re a warrior teacher. It’s something people don’t think about. Your territory is like your aura, it goes with you everywhere, in the hallways, on the stairs and, assuredly, in the classroom.
— Frank McCourt, Teacher Man
I noticed (the ball) was multicolored. One side was green and the other was red. When we got to the gathering I held that ball up and I said, 'Before we begin, will you tell me what color this ball is?' They said, 'red.' I said, 'no, it's green.' We argued a while and I turned the ball around and said, 'tell me what you see here.' Here's what we want to do. We want you to understand until you shall have seen how it looks to me on my side, you can't convince me that you know what you're talking about, because this ball is going to be red on this side and green on that side until the day it dies. Now, if I'm willing to come around here and see how it looks to you, and if you're willing to come around here and see how it looks to me, we can reconcile that.
— Dudley Flood
I just thought that was the most noble contribution you could make to human kind, was to be a teacher.
— Dudley Flood
Cerise! Come and kiss me, you red haired harpy,” Izrayl bellowed. She smiled and moved to kiss his stubbly cheek. He held her tight and squeezed. “How goes it Old Dog,” Cerise said fondly to her temporary captor.“Still alive,” he grinned salaciously at her. “And still young enough to learn some new tricks if you are the one doing the teaching.”“Try it and I will neuter you,” Cerise threatened and tugged on his braid. “You dogs, all you think of is hunting, fighting and fucking.”“What else is there?” Izrayl growled in the back of his throat and raised an eyebrow at her suggestively.
— Amy Kuivalainen, Cry of the Firebird
Finally, let me share a feeling of mine, I hope it will not be misinterpreted as pride. I am seventy four now. But still, if they give me a duty in the wooden hut where I used to stay when I was a mentor long years ago, I will gladly run there and try to fulfill that duty. Perhaps, some of our friends can see that task as a simple and trivial one. But I have not underestimated this duty and would never do so. Even today, some people may consider our having lessons with the small circle of young scholars here as a simple and trivial job. However, in my opinion, this is the most important occupation that can take human to the highest levels.
— M. Fethullah Gülen, Mefkure Yolculuğu
Participating in the filling of others' brains with knowledge and know-how is just an extraordinary gift only very few have. Hence, teaching a language is indeed opening these brains to the world with its similarities and dissimilarities taught in different words.
— Messaoud Mohammed
Given the consumer-pleasing politics of today's universities, I have, in effect, seventy new bosses each semester; they're sitting at the desk in front of me.
— Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Teaching is the best way to learn.
— Debasish Mridha
How deaf and stupid I have been, he thought, walking on quickly. When anyone reads anything which he wishes to study, he does not despise the letters and punctuation marks, and call them illusion, chance and worthless shells, but he reads them, he studies and loves them, letter by letter. But I, who wished to read the book of the world and of my own nature, did presume to despise the letters and signs. I called the world of appearances, illusion. I called my eyes and tongue, chance. Now it is over; I have awakened.
— Hermann Hesse
I’m not sure I ever met an American teacher in Korea that hadn’t volunteered at an orphanage at least once—even our resident idiot could be surprisingly decent on occasion—but I’ve also visited foreign countries where children are taught hatred. I’ve seen it up close and personal. It’s antithetical to everything I believe in as a teacher. The mandate for all teachers is to instill hope, not fear and hatred.
— Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter’s cursive writing.
— T.K. Naliaka
Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.
— Stephen King
I don't see how it's doing society any good to have it's members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams, and clear memories of hating them.
— Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.
— Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Each time I walk into a classroom, I can choose the place within myself from which my teaching will come, just as I can choose the place within my students toward which my teaching will be aimed. I need not teach from a fearful place: I can teach from my curiosity or hope or empathy or honesty, places that are as real within me as are my fears. I can have fear, but I need not be fear - if I am willing to stand somewhere else in my inner landscape.
— Parker J. Palmer
Active critical reflection is necessary in every aspect of our teaching, not only in front of a class. We must try to reevaluate our own values and experiences as they relate to our teaching. Our assumptions and theories about teaching composition must remain open to inspection, evaluation, and revision, a condition that requires an active inquiry paralleling the inquiry in which we engage our students.
— George Hillocks, Teaching Writing as Reflective Practice
...God is already out there in the world ahead of us. In our teaching, therefore, we must do more than merely help people learn how to be good church members. We are directors preparing people for roles in a drama that encompasses every part of their lives.
— Richard Robert Osmer
I try to learn better, do better. I have no idea how I got to be the one at the front of the classroom, the one who gets to be in charge of things. Most of the time, I feel like the kid who gets to sit at the adult table for the first time at Thanksgiving. I'm not sure which fork to use. My feet can't reach the floor.
— Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.
— C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as reminding you of something which you were already aware of, but which had, for some reason or other, slipped your mind.
— Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals
It’s not that I had more important things to do or that I didn’t want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful—rather, it’s this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.
— Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.
— Pat Conroy, South of Broad
The sun appeared between the twin spires of the cathedral as its light reflected off the crescent and star that rose out of the dome on top of the mosque. It was beautiful, and surreal. In one instant, the bells rang out from the cathedral and if I closed my eyes then I could easily imagine that I was back home in Europe, but in the next, the call to morning prayer sounded from the mosque, and it was a stark reminder of how far away I actually was from my true home.
— Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
Educators are in the news, too. Usually that’s bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, you’re probably going to jail.
— Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had created a place of real beauty. It really makes you stop and think. Uncle Google should be spitting out eight hundred million things American schools have done right. The fact things are so screwed up makes no sense. If you believe Uncle Google, then we’ve done the exact opposite from Indira’s family—in the land of hope and plenty we’ve created a place that’s ugly. We have so much. Can things really be so bad? Maybe we can’t fix our schools because as individuals we’ve never truly been broken. Or maybe Chinese lanterns make everyone wax philosophical.
— Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
The first ring glowed in the distance, lit up by consumerism that was brought to Jakarta courtesy of western cultures and Christian nations, and it influenced impoverished Muslims in the third ring, who wore Manchester United tee shirts with 'Rooney' on the back, twisting further the attitudes and perceptions of those who were bent already toward radicalism.
— Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It was only a couple of chickens. Real chickens. The kind that walk around clucking and pecking. Which is what they were doing. Only no one else seemed to care, or even notice. This is normal? Obviously I had a little hiccup reading my notecards. Understandable. I was talking to forty orphans who had to share a dirt floor with two chickens. No one in college had ever prepared me for this scenario.
— Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
Learn to discover your divine potential.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer with a racist attitude. It is just more honest.
— Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April
.keep the child inside you alive..
— Boris Kovalík
I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble.
— Garret Keizer, Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher
We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, insight, intelligence, and industry in trying to arrive at the nearest values to truth. I hope, of course, to argue convincingly that having done this, we have an inescapable duty to seek to inculcate others with these values.
— William F. Buckley Jr., God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'
Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.
— Roma Downey, Son of God
Did one learn or was one shaped?
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
.you are not him or her, you be you..
— Boris Kovalík
.fear aint real..
— Boris Kovalík
Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine (the Greeks had watered theirs down to keep their heads lucid), and, last but not least, six or seven eager and receptive youths seated at one’s feet.
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
.if you're looking into infinity of deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..
— Boris Kovalík
.nothing's perfect and that's perfect..
— Boris Kovalík
.if you're looking in to deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..
— Boris Kovalík
.burn, everybody likes to watch the fire..
— Boris Kovalík
I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.
— Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April
.if you think like any others you will not be different..
— Boris Kovalík
.it's allright not to know all the answers..
— Boris Kovalík
The most insidous influence on the young is not violence, drugs, drink or sexual perversion, but our pursuit of the trivial and tolerance of the third rate.
— Dr. Eric Anderson Headmaster of Eton. .
When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.
— Olabisi Obideyi, It's Time to be a Church Without Walls
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
— Immanuel Kant
All identification is for control and ownership.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Life is a practice. When you 'fail,' you can immediately begin practicing again.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Immediate gratification is a dream killer.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Governments are the deadliest terrorist organizations that have ever existed if body count means anything.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The only way out of your problems is straight through them.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There is no reward beyond the moment. Each moment contains life's reward.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Become a dignitary by treating others with dignity.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Negativity is a natural part of your perfect self.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract at the same farm every year, where the farmer pays you on time and doesn't cheat or abuse you, then it's in your best interest to show up consistently from year to year.
— Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation
The number one skill in life is not giving up.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We do not actually know other nations
—  we only know our judgements.
Are you free or were you sold a facsimile of freedom?
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You teach others how to treat you by how you treat others.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
It's an imperfect world, so you fit in perfectly.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Everything and everyone is your teacher unless you are a poor student.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Children are everything we could have been.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Say yes to life and life will say yes to you!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When is the last time your computer restarted you? Don't forget about nature. Recreation means to re-create yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The transformation of the world takes place in your heart.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Success is not only in the hand
—  it is in the heart.
They say just give up
—  that the world cannot be changed. Just live your life the best you can. Bullshit!
Ugliness sees ugliness
—  beauty sees beauty.
Through love, you see the whole world, not just people, differently.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Be an asset in the lives of others. Put people before things and live from your heart.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Love has perfect eyes for beauty.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Love exalts because it is exalted.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Peace IS Prosperity.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The vile are trampled beneath the feet of other pigs.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Maybe you are a pig and don't even know it.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Conquest was once over the outer territories, but the new conquest is for the inner-territories of our hearts.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life's gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
In a world of sleepwalkers an awakened mind is a teacher and a catalyst for new awakenings, whether they want to be or not.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When children are taught to be "good" and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people's happiness.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When someone is hard on you it may have very little to do with you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Create some clear space and then you will know exactly what to do.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We teach best by how we live life
—  who we are instructs with absolute clarity.
As long as you are waiting for something to make you happy — happiness will never come.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There is no such thing as a non-subjective world to a subjective mind.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your purpose is simply what you do each day.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your uniqueness is the greatest gift you will ever receive in life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There is no such thing as a person without brilliance.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You will always receive what you are equal to.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
No one can set your level of worthiness except you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You are the grand estate and administrator of — now.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you are bored it is only because you are a boring person.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Learn to catch yourself and stop yourself immediately when you are engaging in negative self-talk.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
No one can make you feel anything
—  you are completely responsible for how you feel.
Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are — to yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Who you allow into your life, mind and heart are among the most important decisions you will ever make.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Who you spend your time with is who you are, or who you will soon become.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When you carry a frown you will see more frowns
—  when you carry a smile you will see more smiles.
Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The old saying that, "you are what you eat" extends beyond the body, and includes experiences.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Allow sunshine and light into your rooms and life!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you — you will blow right by their grip
—  you will effortlessly flow to safety.
When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Quit waiting for others to give to you
—  it is not going to happen.
Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path — and that person could even be you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We understand why it is better to teach a starving man to fish, but a repertoire course is worse than handing a a fish to a starving man. Our students are not starving; if anything, they are drowning in a sea of information. So a survey course is more like handing a giant box of chocolates to a fat, rich man.
— José Antonio Bowen, Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning
Your pain and struggles only serve to remind you that you are alive.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?
— Adele Devine, Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
The world's only lessons are tension and fear — relax into yourself.
— Bryant McGill
I want to make it clear before we begin that I think your purpose is to learn and mine is to help you to learn, or to make you learn, though I doubt either of you has to be made. I have very little interest in writing out progress reports on you, or sticking to form charts, or anything else that interferes with our basic purposes. If there is anything you want to learn and have the necessary background to handle, I'll be ready to help you whether or not it is something that formally falls among the things I'm supposed to teach you. If you don't have the background, I'll help you get it. In return, I want you to do something for me. It's been many years since I was last a tutor, so I expect you to point out to me when I fail to observe some ritual that Mr. Quince holds essential. Fair enough?
— Alexei Panshin, Rite of Passage
We are never taught more deeply and more truthfully than by pain.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.
— Jennifer Chiaverini, The Giving Quilt
Whenever pastors assume people in their congregation know certain things, they miss opportunities to teach. If a pastor makes assumptions year after year, then a whole generation has never heard [that truth] for the first time. If we assume too much, we communicate too little.
— Andy Stanley
The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours.
— José Antonio Bowen, Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning
Quit allowing negativity to block the positive gifts which are meant for you along with the hard lessons and tribulations.
— Bryant McGill
You can not teach art, it's not to be taught, but felt and lived, or else it is naught.
— Sabina Nore
The teaching goes on
— Mitch Albom from "Tuesdays with Morrie"
I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn’t have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Teaching is a Creative profession, it is our duty as School Leaders and Education Influencers to offer the right climate to foster innovation and support Innovative Teaching practices within our schools, and that's what will make our students succeed in the 21st century
— Samer Chidiac
Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.
— Henry Edward Armstrong
One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
A Great Teacher is like a fountain; she draws from the still, deep waters of personal growth and professional knowledge to serve others from her abundant overflow.
— Wynn Godbold, How to Be a Great Teacher: Create the Flow of Joy and Success in Your Classroom
We teachers break our bodies to give you a shirt that you will wear in the future, to conferences, to presidential speeches, to autograph signings. That is up to you and if you can do that for at least in a little thank to us. Then thank you, thank you all.
— Pedro A. Pérez Raymond
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
— William Zinsser
When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan.
— Adele Devine, Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found in these forms, because teaching is. We teach not only by our words and assignments but also by the manner of our words and the ways we ourselves already embody the assignments we give.
— Zack Eswine, Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being
...readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions...
— Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir