Pastoral Resources

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

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.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

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

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

History is Philosophy teaching by examples.