Quotes About Education

A biopic teaches you a lot.

We need to have a course in school that teaches about ecology and gastronomy. I could imagine that all children could eat at school for free and that the cafeteria would become part of the school's curriculum.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?'

My father's not the type of person that teaches you by saying, 'Come here, son. I'm going to tell you about real estate.' You learn by watching it. If you don't pick it up, it's your problem.

Over the years, I've worked for and alongside the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association. That's because I am proud of our public school teachers - including my niece who teaches down in Louisiana - just as I am proud of our nation's education system.

Writing teaches writing.

I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.

Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.

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.

Every film you see at a festival teaches you something.

Teaching teaches not only the students, it also teaches the teacher, and physics is so full of complications that you can't in your career have thought of everything.

I'm interested in doing anything that teaches me something.

My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

Every character, every story that you do, it teaches you a lot.

We live in a technology-driven world so I want to ensure our educational system teaches in a technology-driven way.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Everyday classroom teaching is not what children will remember, but how you made a difference in their lives.

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.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.