Adam Kirsch Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Teaching Quotes

In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

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The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

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

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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

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The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

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From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.

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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

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The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

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In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

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But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

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Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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