#teaching

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just. ↗

— Stephen R. Lawhead

#hood #justice #teaching #justice

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students). ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#teaching #education

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#teaching #development

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less. ↗

— Marva Collins

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The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#ask #best #best way #books #divine

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference. ↗

— Marcus Samuelsson

#making-a-difference #racism #teaching #racism

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#brian-tracy #educational #expectation #expectations #life

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that. ↗

— Todd Barry

#doing #end #i #involved #lot

I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well. ↗

— Eric Bristow

#crafty #darts #day #days #deal

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#students #teacher #teaching #life