Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Louis Sachar

I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

Loni Anderson

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Lord Chesterfield

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Lord Acton

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

John Cleese

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

John Cleese

I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.

John Brunner

To go faster you must slow down.

John Bradshaw

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

John Barnes

I’ve been thinking,” he said. “Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

John Barnes

... once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teachers saw that file. They might as well have tattooed CRAZY on your forehead. The next year every teacher would be watching you for the first weird thing you did—and has there ever been a kid who never does anything an adult considers weird?

M. Russell Ballard

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

M. Russell Ballard

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

M. Russell Ballard

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

Luther Burbank

The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.

Luther Burbank

Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.

John Archibald Wheeler

One can only learn by teaching.

You can't teach that. They have to do that on their own.

Matthew Arnold

The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.

Matthew Arnold

For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

Meg Wolitzer

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

Meg Wolitzer

New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various corners, but then they died away as the teacher was absorbed like everyone else...before you knew it, the fresh ones seemed to have been teaching there forever too, or else they didn't last very long, and were gone before you'd gotten to know them.

Meg Wolitzer

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...

Meg Whitman

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Meg Cabot

I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!

Maxine Hong Kingston

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.

Maxine Hong Kingston

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

Maya Angelou

At our best, we are all teachers

Max Weber

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Max Beerbohm

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.