David W. Oxtoby Quotes

A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.

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• The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Man
  • Mistake

• Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Interest
  • Test
  • Studies

• There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Role
  • Israel
  • Scholarship

• Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Teaching
  • Most
  • Did

• When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • School
  • Business
  • Teaching

• I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Good
  • Teach
  • Teaching

• We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Character
  • Happens

• I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Teaching

• We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Breathing
  • Contribution
  • Called

• Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • May
  • True

• One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that line. A yogi sees things in every movement he makes, maybe when practicing, maybe when teaching, or maybe when talking to people. You should have courage in your convictions and pursue what is dear to you all these years.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Courage
  • Teaching
  • Actions

• Instilling values of faith at an early age is important. Listening them through adolescence comes more important than teaching because if you haven't instilled in them at early ages now it's time to listen and get your report card and let them find their way and then as an adult let them stand aside.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Time
  • Important
  • Age

• Employees want to believe their company has a meaningful purpose. They want to know that their own job is worthwhile. They want to make a difference. If all three of these conditions are accomplished, bottom line results will follow.

  

  Quint Studer
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Purpose

• Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.

  

  Quint Studer
  • People
  • Culture
  • Learning

• It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.

  

  Quint Studer
  • Learning
  • Organization
  • Teaching

• Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • High
  • Words
  • Teaching

• I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • School

• All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Life
  • Men
  • Needs

• Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Teaching
  • Satisfying
  • Exhausting

• There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.

  

  Alice von Hildebrand
  • Teaching
  • Qualities
  • Vocation

• It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Teaching
  • Climbing
  • Buddy

• Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Character
  • Integrity

• A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.

  

  David W. Oxtoby
  • Teaching
  • Significant
  • Contribution