Quotes About Learning

I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing.

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.

If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.

I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing.

Only bad teachers lecture at a tutorial.

Good teachers can make great authors accessible to new generations anywhere.

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

I talk to teachers all the time. They tell me why they joined the profession. How they believed that they could inspire the children they taught. And I have seen lessons that really inspire me.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

I learned life from some good teachers.

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.

I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.

You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.