#teaching

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#labour #language #learning #relation #secret

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#better #better place #continues #dalai #dalai lama

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#after #ever #ever after #fairy #fairy tales

When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years. ↗

— Josef Albers

#five #got #government #had #job

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad. ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#bank #being #call #civil #civil war

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#make #must #our people #people #righteousness

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness. ↗

— Origen

#also #beginning #certain #certain time #church

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #festive #light #literature #literature-quotes

The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a single stroke, we delude our students into believing that bad prose turns opinions into facts and we alienate them from their own inner lives. ↗

— Parker J. Palmer

#heart #subjectivity #teaching #grammar

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. ↗

— Jim Henson

#education #learning #teaching #education