Quotes About Instruction

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.

I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed.

Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.

There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.

Working as a correspondent for 'Business Week,' I felt that I was simply informing people, not empowering them. I saw a parallel problem in the world of education. In too many educational settings, teachers simply 'inform' or 'instruct' learners, rather than providing learners with opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.

We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn't always the case. We frequently find gaps between goals and what is actually taught, and these gaps can have a lasting impact on a child's learning.

David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.

Just because you have experience driving doesn't necessarily mean you have experience teaching how to drive.

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.

A big part of teaching is being emphatic. Maybe I'm right or wrong, but part of my approach was that when I said something, the kids understood exactly what I meant and what I wanted.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

My main improvement on defense has just been my coaches. They've been teaching me defensive schemes, how to guard guys, and how to use my length.

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

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

'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories.

Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.

Great teaching - just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction - is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special.

I believe in teaching manners without causing fisticuffs.