#teaching

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#concentrate #could #decisive #details #essential

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. ↗

— Yann Martel

#men

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#rejection #teaching

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#greater #lfe #our #patience #shorter

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think ↗

— Socrates

#philosophy #teaching

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. ↗

— Aristotle

#understanding #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