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Quotes About Instructing

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.
~ Christopher Gorham
With granite will, he began to mold Pierpont, instructing him to associate with those of his grammar-school classmates "as are of the right stamp & whose influence over you will be good.
~ Ron Chernow
Programming is usually taught by examples.
~ Niklaus Wirth
I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.
~ Martin Landau
They lived in the temple annex, where they devoted ten years to being educated, another ten to officiating and yet another ten to instructing new recruits. They ensured the upkeep of the public hearth under the authority of their most senior member, the great Vestal (Virgo Vestalis Maxima).
~ Robert Turcan
If I teach you reading and writing, I'm warning you I've got to hit you on the head and call you bad names when you're stupid, because that's how you do teaching.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Teaching is bringing the news.
~ Frank McCourt
I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.
~ Frank McCourt
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.
~ Therese Fowler
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
~ Simone Weil
I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.
~ Atom Egoyan
We learn by teaching.
~ James Howell
The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.
~ Dizzy Dean
The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.
~ Carl Rogers
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
~ Paulo Freire
No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.
~ Henry Ford
The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.
~ Grant Teaff
I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.
~ James Galway
The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no greater learning process than to teach.
~ Robert Muller
At our best, we're all teachers
~ Maya Angelou
I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn.
~ Dalai Lama XIV