Quotes About Teaching

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you've got to be a real teacher. You can't just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

Found out I'm actually a pretty good teacher.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

I was a teacher once.

Don't say I was an inspirational teacher - my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I hope I didn't do the children a disservice.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.