Quotes About Teaching

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

My imagination ran 24/7, and to me, every problem was a challenge to solve and new product to create. It wasn't until I started teaching that I realized that not everyone's head worked the same way.

I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how the child and you are engaging in something that's really basic to the animal, which is passing on in these rhythmic ways, something that came from somewhere.

People shouldn't be teaching if they break appointments, if they behave in an irresponsible way. I try to be down-to-earth and sensible. I want students to know I'm going to work for all of them and not play favorites and that I'm really going to do my work.

By high school, I was putting the music for the services together and teaching Sunday school to everybody's kids.

It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.

If you are teaching a kid about seasons, you can put it in a song. He will definitely take interest. I wish to put every physics formula into a song, and it will become very easy for the student to learn.

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

I would have been happy teaching music in schools - I still would be, and I still might be, although I don't know if I'm clever enough.

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.