Quotes About Learning

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.

I was seven years old when my grandmother stated teaching me to sew, and she always encouraged me to be creative.

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.

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.

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

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

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.

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

The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how the child and you are engaging in something that's really basic to the animal, which is passing on in these rhythmic ways, something that came from somewhere.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

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.

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 had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive.