Quotes About Teaching

I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.

What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.

I've been teaching full-time for 41 years at small colleges, and I can't imagine what it would mean for me or my colleagues to be armed with handguns or rifles instead of books and a thorough knowledge of our chosen disciplines.

John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

Even though I am getting my coaching badges, I am more into mentoring.

When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

The main difference in the effectiveness of teaching comes from the thoughts the teacher has had during the entire time of his or her existence and brings into the classroom. A teacher concerned with developing humans affects the students quite differently from a teacher who never thinks about such things.

I think that one thing about teaching is you're trying to communicate your thoughts about a work to a group of people who may or may not share that sentiment. This has forced me to become a lot more articulate about what I respond to and what I don't respond to in fiction.

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

Lockington said, "'Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking.'" She clapped her hands. "Oh, that's excellent! Who said it?" "My father—he used it twenty times a day." "It sounds almost biblical." "It is biblical—it's the only verse my old man ever memorized.

In about 1305, Dante called him the "supreme philosopher" who "holds universal sway in teaching everywhere" and whose doctrines "may almost be called universal opinion.

There's an excellent video of full-class Plan B on the Lives in the Balance website.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

We teach what we need to learn.

Ali, who had seen scores of his students go out to become mullahs of neighborhoods and villages, now thanked God he had the talent to remain in a life of learning, since he clearly lacked the courage - he was tempted to say the audacity - to tell other people how to live their lives.

Roy Peter Clark

Roy Peter Clark

Some teachers refer to this as the 2-3-1 tool of emphasis, where the most emphatic words or images go at the end, the next most emphatic at the beginning, and the least emphatic in the middle, but that's too much calculus for my brain. Here's my simplified version: put your best stuff near the beginning and at the end; hide weaker stuff in the middle. Amy

Roy Peter Clark

Roy Peter Clark

Roy Peter Clark