Pastoral Resources

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.