Teaching Quotes

A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back."

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

It's not about thinking outside of the box. It's about realizing there is no box.

Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?

Discipline is positive. Discipline is training. Teaching and discipline are inseparable.

Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves.

To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality thing where it's like, "A man and woman have a baby."

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

Because God loves us, he gives us practical teaching and boundaries to protect our hearts. The whole thing is one big expression of a father's love for his children.

I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching allows me to think about it, to articulate it, and to explore it.

Teaching people the best way to market organically with Facebook, is like teaching them the best way to butter bread, with a spoon.

A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.

This week, Georgia's board of education approved a plan that allows teachers to keep using the word Evolution when teaching biology. Though, as a compromise, dinosaurs are now called Jesus Horses.

Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching of critical thinking to to launch direct attacks.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

To attract joy and create more success, try doing less but doing it with more enthusiasm.

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius.

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference.

Teaching has definitely become a big part of my life in the past ten plus years. As it often does for many dedicated players. Because you can have some great gigs.