Quotes About Teaching

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn't have it for history. So I wouldn't have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that's what coaching is at every level: it's about teaching.

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

I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.

By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.

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

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that's probably the best way to do it... because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he'll never forget it.

I am teaching more. That is what I do best.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

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

Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews itself every year - it's a renewable resource.

We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. It is in that spirit that we can hear or read a teaching and then look at our own lives, at our own experiences to see whether anything might have been revealed about them.

I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.

I was partnered with the singer Drew Lachey of the popular group 98 Degrees. Drew and I complemented each other with our strengths. I was good at dancing and teaching dance, and he was a good student and a natural-born ham for the cameras.

The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger.

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

My father loved the game. The people at the Albuquerque Academy I grew up with teaching me the game.

Our task is to find teaching methods that continually engage the whole human being. We would not succeed in this endeavor if we failed to concentrate on developing the human sense of art.

Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

Teaching is very important. The nature of your personality isn't that important. Lombardi was very extraverted, very bombastic. Landry very quiet, reserved. Both were great teachers and great coaches.

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.