Quotes About Education

My mother, who is a Carnatic musician, started a school for children when I was around three, and I grew up listening to her teaching students.

I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

Those things that you just do, if you put that together in a DVD program, let's say, for $97, to teach people how to do that. Well, if you sold 100 of those a month, that's $9,700 of income a month just teaching what you already do and know to people who want to learn how to do the same.

Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back.

Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

One of our film lecturers, one of the guys teaching the course, said to the departing film class, 'No one in this room is going to make it, as a filmmaker.' I have no idea why he said that.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Education can help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. Teaching students to make healthy decisions can improve habits now and instill healthy eating habits for a lifetime.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and have that as my safety net and then tackle the music industry.

People shouldn't be teaching if they break appointments, if they behave in an irresponsible way. I try to be down-to-earth and sensible. I want students to know I'm going to work for all of them and not play favorites and that I'm really going to do my work.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

If you are teaching a kid about seasons, you can put it in a song. He will definitely take interest. I wish to put every physics formula into a song, and it will become very easy for the student to learn.

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.

I would have been happy teaching music in schools - I still would be, and I still might be, although I don't know if I'm clever enough.