Teach Quotes - Page 25

• Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

  Angela Davis

  Country, California, Community

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• I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Atheist, Learning

  "The Two Types of Faith" by Greg Cootsona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Philosophical, Thought Provoking

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition”, p.9, OUP Oxford

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• Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

  Clarence Day

  Funny, Character, Wrinkles

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• Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

  Clarence Day

  Curiosity, Pausing, Facts

  Clarence Day (2017). “This Simian World”, p.25, Litres

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• Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

  Paula Deen

  Growing Up, School, Kitchen

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• Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

  Ani DiFranco

  Song, Hero, Writing

  "Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 29, 2008.

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• Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for.

  Junot Diaz

  Real, Grateful, Mit

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• It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Students, Impossible, Programming

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

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• When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

  Annie Dillard

  Students, Dedicated

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• Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Learning, Ideas

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• Travel teaches toleration.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Travel, Journey

  Benjamin Disraeli (2004). “Contarini Fleming”

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• Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Magnificence, Splendor, Wealth

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “The young duke. Count Alarcos”

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• Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

  Snoop Dogg

  Loss, Should Have, Done

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

  Drake

  Journey, Sometimes, Destination

  "Watch Drake's High School Graduation Speech" by Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

  Will Durant

  Education, Men, Woe

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'

  Dick Van Dyke

  Jobs, Bye, Champion

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• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  Abba Eban

  Funny, Sarcastic, War

  Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970

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• Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Prayer, Blessing, Praying

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

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• By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Children, Information, Difficult

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• At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Love, Hate, Generosity

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• I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

  Albert Ellis

  Children, School, Thinking

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• We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

  Albert Ellis

  Past, Thinking, People

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• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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• The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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