Browsing Quotes With Tag: teaching (41)
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“When Spirit speaks to spirit, the imprint upon the soul is far more difficult to erase.
Speaker: President Joseph Fielding SmithSource: “The First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve,” Improvement Era, Nov. 1966, p. 979.Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The task of leadership is not to create greatness in people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
Speaker: John BuchanPosted: 31 Aug 2011 at 9:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own
Speaker: Bruce LeePosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Speaker: Chinese proverbPosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You do not take up philosophy the way you enter the seminary, with a credo as your sword and a single path as your destiny. Should you study Plato. Epicurus, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel or even Husserl? Esthetics, politics, morality, epistemology, metaphysics? Should you devote your time to teaching, to producing a body of work, to research, to Culture? It makes no difference. The only thing that matters is your intention: are you elevating thought and contributing to the common good, or rather joining the ranks in a field of study whose only purpose is its own perpetuation, and only function the self-reproduction of a sterile elite – for this turns the university into a sect.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 27 Jun 2009 at 1:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Remember that the best teachers not only teach a subject— they convey principles of living through a subject.
Speaker: Dan MillmanPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Don’t teach pigs to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
Speaker: AnonymousSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Speaker: John D. RockefellerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can tell a good teacher not by how he teaches, but by how he asks questions.
Speaker: Jordan VanOostendorpPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Preparation is a prerequisite to inspiration. Inspiration will never elicit thoughts from an empty head. Study assiduously, striving to develop a creative mind.
Speaker: Matthew CowleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It has been said that every good teacher should be something of a pack rat, collecting poignant ideas and powerfully expressed sentiments from the sources he or she encounters day by day. Daily living, when viewed through the eyes of a teacher, is full of experiences that spring to life as stories, analogies, and illustrations when it is time to teach.
Speaker: Glen M. RoylancePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I need to find out what I believe about a subject before I can be at peace with that subject. That means that I can’t teach it until I know it, and I can’t give my opinion about it until I know what my opinion is. And even more important, I can’t live it until I know what it is.
…You won’t know what you believe until you can get it down to 3-5 concepts.Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Preach the first principles of the Gospel – preach them over again: you will find that day after day new ideas and additional light concerning them will be revealed to you. You can enlarge upon them so as to comprehend them clearly. You will then be able to make them more plainly understood to those [you] teach.
Speaker: Hyrum SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself, and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.
Speaker: John TaylorPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When a missionary knows how to teach, he becomes fearless.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!