2,279 Quotes About Teaching

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

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

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.

Nothing has happened in education until it has happened to a student.