teaching

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

My God can do it! My God will do it! My God wants to do it! My God has done it!

Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

I'd rather teach you how to make BREAD than give you a SLICE from my BREAD.

Teaching mathematics, like teaching any art, requires the ability to inspire the student. Inspiration requires marketing, and marketing requires stirring communication.

One of the biggest surprises my students always had in their exams, which made some angry and others, few, very happy, was to realize I always allow multiple correct answers, and also saw as correct many answers that I didn't predict to receive. The reason I do this, is because life works in the same way. If I do as other teachers, and only allow one correct answer, then students will never really have a chance at understanding how life works. Because it's never about the answer, it__ all about the intention in the answer, and that intention puts the teacher in a completely different position, with which most aren't comfortable. That__ why I was never surprised to hear from students, including in their final year of college, that they had never met any other teacher like me in their entire life. They also knew that they very likely never will. But very few among these students are brave enough to look at the portals to higher dimensions of conscience that open before their eyes, either they__e confronting them from one perspective or another. And I wonder if any of these students will one day present the same opportunities they got from me to others. These portals represent amazing opportunities for the ones with the courage to see them and cross them. But only a very powerful person possesses the power to open one for others. And if you think that person is what it seems, you will neglect the magician hiding behind the illusion of the teacher in front of you. You see, I was never teaching, I was always creating magic in the classroom. The ones looking for the teaching, got confused, the ones looking at the lecturer were hypnotized by the illusion, and those that really saw what was happening, were uplifted. Among thousands of them, one or two have acquired the skills to be magicians themselves. They are now performing the same kind of magic they learned from me wherever they go.

The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind - Emily Dickinson

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.