Quotes About Education

I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

I love teaching.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

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

I had been teaching myself photography.

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.