#teaching

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#teaching

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#bulimia #eating-disorders #skeletons #thin #teaching

Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#knowledge #teaching #teaching

Shall I teach you what knowledge? When you know a thing, say that you know it; when you do not know a thing, admit that you do not know it. That is knowledge ↗

— Confucius

#teaching

All problems are illusions of the mind. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#mind #problem #teaching

You might have to teach me a little about the human world, but I'm willing to learn if it means being close to you." - Prince Ash ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#teaching

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#tolkien #teaching

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#teaching

Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her. ↗

— Rafe Esquith

#baseball

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. ↗

— William Bennett

#any #assume #child #does #elementary