Quotes About Teaching

My kids don't listen to me when I preach at them. But if I tell them a story they can pull something from, that matters.

I'd never go up to somebody and start preaching, but if somebody asks I'm willing to talk about it. Often, after people have seen me praying, they'll ask and it's a chance to show how normal prayer time is and why we do it, to teach people about the religion. Not to try to change them, but to explain.

Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.

The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me.

Often, players at clubs I have been at have asked me for prayers or advice. I prefer to show them things rather than to say things; with my actions, not my words.

The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.

Desserts are my life - making them, eating them, and teaching others how to prepare them perfectly.

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.

We preserve the legacy of my father through an education approach. We award scholarships. We do classes at schools about my father's philosophy and life.

My mother inculcated wisdom in us, and I want to preserve her wisdom in writing.

I go to the lab and in order to interact with my postdoctoral students and try to see if I can shape them to not copy but to ask questions and to think. We have to have a little dialogue because you don't pretend to be the fountain of all wisdom.

I think you can learn from pretty much everybody if you just open your eyes.

I think that casting shows are pretty good at teaching someone how to present themselves and how to handle the media.

I learn from teaching. Having to break things down and explain them makes me a better dancer.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.

I told my wife once, 'I feel like I'm getting paid to sit at the feet of Aristotle.' Some people are like, 'You're comparing David Milch to Aristotle,' and yeah, I am, but I'm not Plato.

Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'

The sad thing in this day and age is kids have access to all sorts of horrible stuff on the Internet and they need to be taught the stuff about love and sex.

After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting.

Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

I read a couple books on democratic coaching.

My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.