Pastoral Resources

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.