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Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help. -- William James
The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great. -- William James
It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher. -- William James
What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand." -- William James
Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves. -- William James
Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized... -- Michael Bell
The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist. -- William James
Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least. -- William James
You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use. -- William James
Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back. -- William James
Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art, athletics, and music. He was a student of peace and he embodied peace. Sri Chinmoy was a great man and his life's work significantly helped to build world harmony and will continue to do so. -- Al Gore
The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes. -- William James
In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are. -- William James
Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school. -- Barbara Kruger
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. -- Mark Van Doren
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training. -- Dick Cavett
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. -- Jacques Barzun
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France
Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form. -- Deborah Ann Woll
I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium. -- Peter Greenaway
When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to. -- Taylor Mali
Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies. -- Warren Farrell
I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the Ph.D. in art history when I'm 50, or maybe divinity school. I like teaching, too. -- Jandy Nelson
The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are good teachers. That may seem an obvious statement, but in higher education, it is often the student's course evaluations that win the day with administrators. -- Michelle Grabner
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things. -- Robert Pinsky
At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds. -- Sarah Kay
I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it. -- Art Garfunkel
Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids. -- Art Alexakis
Teaching is performance art. -- Kate Clinton
Teaching is a performance art. -- Camille Paglia
Learning is as much an art as teaching -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation -- Jerome Bruner
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. -- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. -- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching. -- Stephen Sondheim
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher. -- Steve Perry
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen. -- Vandana Shiva
My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art. -- Howard Pyle
Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches. -- Sigmund Freud
That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way. -- Taylor Mali
Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted. -- Danny Gregory
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life. -- Morihei Ueshiba
The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so. -- Deborah Meier
One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is. -- Stuart Pearson Wright

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