Quotes About Teaching

Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.

Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

Bharathirajaa taught me everything, from body language to emoting with one's eyes.

When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.

My father taught me boxing and showed me what this beautiful sport means.

Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.

So, I started teaching in 1999 in the South Bronx.

In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.

Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.

Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.

It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?

In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.

We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.

I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.

Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed.

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.

My best stuff as a teacher was always to find the problems within each individual actor, and I'll suggest things that I know that particular actor will have difficulty with.

I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.

Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.

There were some summers when every boy in Ayrshire seemed to be playing golf, and my dad taught me. But he was a terrible teacher - of everything. Learning to drive with him almost killed me. He was the world's most impatient man - awful short fuse.

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.