Quotes About Teaching

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

I can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked.

At Bristol I found it quite difficult to continue trying to balance three things - teaching, research and public engagement, for which television was obviously the most prominent part.

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

Entrepreneurship can be taught to people with average academic abilities - the proof of that is everywhere you look.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

If we teach our children how to listen properly to the world - and especially to each other - they will understand the consequences of their own sound and be far more responsible in making it.

It was a great learning curve because I knew I could put on a session, but I couldn't set out cones straight! That's one of the hardest things to do in coaching, little things like that to be able to prepare a session properly.

Interns can be hard on me and I'm hard on them. They have no experience and I have little patience when they don't know how to address an envelope or can't put a date in the calendar properly (I mean literally, like with the right floor number or proper cross streets).

I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God.

It's great that we can, however subtly, offer important lessons through cartoons that it's important to protect the environment.

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently in your head, you have learnt nothing.

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.

but one thing ye do not know, nor yet have investigated, to teach those to be wise who have no intellect! HIPP. A clever sophist this you speak of, who is able to compel those who have no wisdom to be rightly wise. But (for thou art arguing too refinedly on no suitable occasion) I fear, O father, lest thy tongue be talking at random through thy woes.

But I don't know a word of German, I've had no experience, I've got no testimonials, and I can't play cricket.' 'It doesn't do to be too modest,' said Mr Levy. 'It's wonderful what one can teach when one tries.

trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn't know existed.