Quotes About Teaching

Washington should tell governments that printing lies and teaching intolerance will have consequences in terms of foreign assistance, political support and military aid.

As much as I might decry the students, as much as they're a nightmare, it's a privilege to be among youth.

I want to help young coaches have an experience like I've had. But mostly, I want to take the prized possession of every parent by taking their children and helping them grow and helping mentor them and helping them teach me.

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

What you realize is when you have an environment and an atmosphere like we had at Marist, where guys cared about each other, the coaches were great teachers and communicators, whether it's high school, college or pro, I think coaching is coaching.

When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about negotiations.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

I not only couldn't read but often couldn't hear or understand what was being said to me - by the time I'd processed the beginning of a sentence, the teacher was well on her way through a second or third.

Throughout their career, the likes of Xavi and Andres Iniesta have all been taught to a play a certain way. English players have been taught a different way, just like Brazil have been taught a different way.

All coaches have different ways of working.

My best teacher was my mother. She was a diplomats wife living in the Arab world in the 70s and 80s who always worked, even in really tough circumstances.

It wasn't until I was in that world, directing shows and movies, that I realized basically my job is to give back to another generation what the generation before me gave to me.

I loved teaching and directing choral activities at BYU, but nothing surpasses working with the MTC musicians.

When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.

When your kids disappoint you, you tell them off; you don't give them some chocolate, do you? You treat players similar to how you treat your kids, really.

It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.

My father taught me to play the sitar when I was seven years old. He and his elder disciples oversaw my teaching from the beginning, looking after my scale work, the poor things.

Our No. 1 goal on this Earth is to make disciples. That's the only job we want to do.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

As much as I like teaching and students, it's a kind of rigor, a discipline, that's against my body.

Bob taught me extraordinary discipline and love.

Children can be disciplined with love.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

I felt I would have the most creative freedom making experimental films and teaching, as I had many good examples of people around me who did just that.