#teaching

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#children #teaching #art

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#creativity #teaching #vocation #art

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it. ↗

— Steve Martin

#children #teaching #art

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#also #assist #corrupt #courtroom #courts

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#moderation #teaching #education

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other. ↗

— George Steiner

#teaching #dreams

Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents. ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#heresy #spiritual-leadership #leadership

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#education #learning #teaching #education

School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn. ↗

— Vijay Dhameliya

#education-system #school #school-system #teacher #teaching

The years teach us much, which the days never knew. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#learning #life-lessons #teaching #experience