Quotes About Teaching

Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.

Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.

I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.

Teachers today can't take to a child.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

I've been thinking," he said. "Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

But you also are facing an uphill battle if you are trying to be the first teacher who asks students to think in class and they are already 16 years old.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

There's nothing a teacher likes better than ten minute videos. It's not the whole class, but it's not too short, it's enough to wrap a lesson plan around.

I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set 'Teachers Lounge' up.

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

There is no greater learning process than to teach.

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.