Quotes About Teaching

I have never forgotten John Candy's generosity. He showed me how to be a gentle leader.

I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it.

I think about all of my students who were math-phobic, who didn't believe they could learn math, who didn't understand, who didn't think they were smart enough, and by the end, they understood that they already had the gifts, and my job was to help them access them, and I believe that.

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

I'm always giving life lessons in my music.

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

I love teaching. I love coaching. I love teaching communications class. I love giving back to the kids and the industry.

I want to help kids and I've been blessed with this talent from God, and I feel like I'm supposed to be giving back helping kids, teaching them everything I know.

I can definitely see myself coaching, I'm not sure what level, but I do love teaching and giving back what I've learned on this journey of mine. Yeah, Coach Tay does have a nice ring to it.

Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.

Teaching is very fulfilling because every day I go home feeling like I helped people.

My dad was a really good golfer, and he just taught me how to play.

When you are bringing up your kids, you hope you have given them some sense of right and wrong, a sense of good and bad.

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

I was always fond of giving good education to people.

Let the good people teach people how to be rich.

I had really good relationship with my students; it definitely took me a few months before I had my students' respect.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

Ressurection of the little apple tree outside my window, leaf- light of late in the April called her eyes, forget forget— but how How does one go about dying? Who on earth is going to teach me— The world is filled with people who have never died

Parents owed their children admonition and discipline, not expressive sentiment.

They'll read and sing a sacred song, And make a prayer both loud and long, And teach the right and do the wrong, Hailing htthe brother, sister, throng, With words of heavenly union.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.