Quotes About Teaching

Oh, I shouldn't try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.

That's your little mob in there,' said Grimes; 'you let them out at eleven.' 'But what am I to teach them?' said Paul in sudden panic. 'Oh, I shouldn't try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason which he is anxious to conceal.

Either there is a teacher now teaching upon earth, guaranteed by Christ as the apostles were, or there is no possibility of knowing the truth which He saw to be so essential.

she had taught a class in oral history at the community college, and Elner Shimfissle had attended with her friend Irene Goodnight.

Una frase de C.S. Lewis en el Moleskine: «La tarea del educador moderno no es cortar selvas, sino regar desiertos».

Because men learn only what would be of use to their great-grandparents. The right way to live is something we can teach only the dead.

È una regola della vita che si possa (anzi, si debba) imparare da tutti. Ci sono cose della serietà della vita che possiamo imparare da ciarlatani e da banditi, ci sono filosofie che gli stolti possono insegnarci, ci sono lezioni di fermezza e di legge che provengono dal caso e da coloro che fanno parte del caso. Tutto è in ogni cosa.

The right way to live is something we can only teach the dead.

Teach nothing, for you still have everything to learn.

It is a rule of life that we can and must learn from everyone. There are serious matters in life to be learned from charlatans and bandits, there are philosophies to be gleaned from fools, real lessons of fortitude that come to us by chance and from those who depend on chance. Everything contains everything else.

He's a good boy, he takes instruction well; I just can't think of enough things to tell him not to do.

The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.

There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. The Nature and Aim of Fiction

The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.

I was always the one in my family that was into make-up and I was always the one teaching my family and friends.

You know, master classes are essentially extended Q&As. That's how I always approach them. I don't mean to downplay it. It's just that I never fancy myself as someone who is taking a class. 'Master class' insinuates a teacher, and I'm not one.

My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

As fathers, we all have great lessons to teach our children.

Fathers are the first image of who God is!

One of my favorite things to do is play guitar with my dad, who taught me.