Teaching Quotes (page 19)

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• writing
• boys
• writes

We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene. Francis Ford Coppola

• soul
• faith
• personal

As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• lesson
• learning
• writing

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself. Stephen King

• chance
• may
• understanding

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. Richard Dawkins

• song
• hero
• goddess

Goddess of song, teach me the storyof a hero. Homer

• heart
• grace
• graces

If I am right, Thy grace impart. Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart. To find that better way! Alexander Pope

• grief
• teachings
• teaches

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• she
• good
• beautiful

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. Therefore the Masteracts without doing anythingand teaches without saying anything. Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn't... Lao Tzu

• time
• words
• chicken

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.'Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud.'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. Roald Dahl

• teach
• seemed
• skills

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,' he said. 'Have you though of going into teaching? Terry Prachett

• leaving
• look
• sad

Philippa’s letter, from an afflicted conscience, was not very much longer. … if I don’t look for him, no one else will. You know I’m sorry. But I couldn’t leave that little thing to wither away by itself Don’t be sad. We’re all going to come back. And you can teach him Two Legs and I Wot a Tree, and save him the top of the milk for his blackberry pie. He’ll never know, if we’re quick, that nobody wanted him.… Which had, Kate considered as she scrubbed off her tears, a ring of unlikely... Dorothy Dunnett

• nice
• play
• little

A kitten, a nice, little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed, and feed, and feed! Bram Stoker

• forgiveness
• you me
• love life

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life. John Wilmot

• alone
• reading
• being alone

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. Jonathan Franzen

• education
• students
• education students

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars. Stephen Fry