Quotes About Teaching

You don't teach boys to be charming. It makes people think they are devious.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.

If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.

Let students use technologies in the classroom.

The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity.

I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to do comedy better.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side.

Every time you ride, your either teaching or un-teaching your horse.

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves. Break the cycle.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.