Quotes About Teaching

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

You have to learn your own details before you can teach them.

Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.

I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

I believe that teaching is one of the most noble professions and it's no easy task to shape the minds of the next generation.

My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength,' in Portuguese and Italian, because my genius brother taught English in both Italy and Brazil.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

My mom taught me how to sew when I was 2 or 3, so I've been sewing for as long as I can remember.

I was a lifeguard and taught swimming lessons when I was in high school.

For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.