Teach Quotes
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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You could have a kid that is going to get in trouble a little bit, and you can teach them as much as you can, and hopefully they'll go the right way.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.
George Singleton
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Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating.
Stanley Kubrick
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
Sherman Alexie
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I have a lot of respect for advertising. If I didn't teach and could go back in time, I might try and become a copywriter. I especially like print ads that combine a photo with a short caption or tag line.
Elaine Equi
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I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.
Simon Sinek
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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.
Richard Feynman
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Birds exist to teach us things about the sky.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.
Elie Faure
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[God] wants to teach men and women how to walk together in union and be great-to teach this people how to be bound to him and to those that he sets over them, and to teach his Saints how to reign in the house of Israel as his servants.
Erastus Snow
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You can’t out-spend the giants, but you can out-think, out-teach, and out-help them.
Brian Halligan
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Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.
Darryl Dawkins
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Life cannot teach if one is not able to overcome sufferings.
Arturo Graf
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Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
William Greider
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It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach.
George Polya
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The things that hurt us teach us.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
Eugene Delacroix
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It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.
Charles de Foucauld
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Lord, what are you trying to teach me?
Catherine Marshall
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Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.
Gautama Buddha
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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Joshua Reynolds