The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Delicious Teaching Art quotations
I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Judo teaches us to look for the best possible course of action, whatever the individual circumstances.
The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many;
that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
As far as possible, I want nothing more than to don my training gi and teach Karate.
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.
Many Karate teachers teach a watered down style - no hip action and no depth of punching - so it is easy to say that these teachers have no depth to their knowledge. You are what your teacher is, and if he knows a lot, you should be able to demonstrate this knowledge.
Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking;
it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
When you teach her that hoe mentality, they accept that as reality.
Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
O Mary! teach us the life of adoration! Teach us to see, as thou didst, all the mysteries and all the graces in the Eucharist; to live over again the Gospel story and to read it in the light of the Eucharistic Life of Jesus. Remember, O our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, that thou art the Mother of all adorers of the Holy Eucharist
If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.
My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.
The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Teaching is a performance art.
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be.
They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.
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.