#teaching

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

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We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature. ↗

— Phillip M. Hoose

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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#been #before #born #grand #had

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

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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

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

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There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman. ↗

— George Stigler

#chairman #college #department #iowa #schultz