Quotes About Teaching

The goal, Sister Clare had taught them in school, was shorthand so neat and so legible that anyone can pick up your steno book and type your letters for you. So neat and so legible, she had said, smiling at them from within her wimple, that if you elope on your lunch hour, another secretary can finish your letters for you that afternoon.

My father dreamed that one day he might teach another child to love ships in bottles. He knew there would be both sadness and joy in it; that it would always hold an echo of me.

Confucius-says

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers...

I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman.

And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.

there's no beginning or end to teaching and learning and working — it all runs together.

I guess this is because they teach me, and I teach the children and there's no beginning or end to teaching and learning and working—it all runs together.

Whenever I met someone who seemed to know a lot about a subject, and who evinced, moreover, a certain happiness in his or her being, and if I were interested in the subject, I asked to be taught what they knew.

I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have

Although I work for Corrine and Samuel and look after the children, I don't feel like a maid. I guess this is because they teach me, and I teach the children and there's no beginning or end to teaching and learning and working—it all runs together.

E imagine que a dona Beasley sempre dizia que eu era a criança mais inteligente que ela já tinha ensinado! Mas eu agradeço a ela por uma coisa em particular que ela me ensinou, me mostrando como aprender por mim mesma, lendo e estudando e escrevendo claramente. E por ter mantido dentro de mim de alguma forma vivo o desejo de saber.

hadn't realized I was so ignorant, Celie. The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble! And to think Miss Beasley always said I was the smartest child she ever taught! But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. And for keeping alive in me somehow the desire to know.

Linda was keen to try, but musicianship and songwriting did not come easily to her, and she quickly discovered that she could not count on master classes from her highly accomplished husband. "No, he is not a good teacher, Paul," she said in a frank moment. "He has no patience what-so-ever with somebody who doesn't know. He

I taught more than one hundred kids today—and some of them were listening

There is such a thing as reincarnation. If you teach long enough, the same kids keep coming back again.

This was her version of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll—dating a chalk artist, and teaching school.

Thus, as the Buddha said to a lady who offered him a curse,the gift is returned to the giver when it is not accepted

The boys teach; the Scoutmaster tests.

Rizal is a compulsory course in school, but few teachers make Rizal's novels interesting. If students are taught to enjoy Rizal's works as literature instead of as a lodemine of 'patriotic' allusions I am sure they would not mind reading and rereading the 'Noli me Tangere'.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.    ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.

A guerra é a forma de Deus en­si­nar ge­o­grafia aos ame­ri­ca­nos.