Quotes About Education

I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are.

My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.

I think corporal punishment is the shortest, most impatient, flawed way of teaching or making a child understand something.

If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.

We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.

We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself.

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.

If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.

Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.

More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high needs classrooms. Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children to achieve on an absolute scale and understand what we need to do to allow them to fulfill their potential.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

When I was six or seven, we went to the nearest English primary school, St Weonards, about seven miles away. The teaching was good, and this was the start of my beginning to shine as a student.

Teaching people to eat doesn't make a lot of money. Nevertheless, most of us go into medicine because of a genuine desire to help people and optimize their health.

Better teacher pay combined with scholarships in exchange for teaching in our public schools can help North Carolina attract and keep talented teachers.

What we are against is the teaching of contested political ideas as if they are accepted facts. We don't do this with communism. We don't do this with socialism. We don't do this with capitalism.