Pastoral Resources

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.