Quotes About Teaching

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.

When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma.

I've always wanted to play a teacher.

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.