Quotes About Communication

My husband's parents were both English teachers for decades.

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

It was called 'The Surgery' at the time, but the 'Life Hacks' show was a very important place for me when I was growing up. I remember so many things that I didn't know how to talk to my teachers or my parents about; those hard questions that I had, they were answered on that show.

Teachers have a million stories, but nobody consults them.

Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.

Teachers tell me that they'd like to work more closely with parents.

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.

I grew up with deaf teachers, and I thought all deaf children should have exposure to deaf educators.

I don't envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

What a great poem teaches you - and it's not intellectual at all - is the resonance in the language that's heard there. This goes back to the very origins of poetry and to the very origins of language.

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

Writing teaches writing.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.