Quotes About Teaching

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

As a former teacher, I know how frustrating it must be to watch students walk out of class, particularly if they have important exams on the horizon.

My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.

In 1992, I was a young doctor working as a diagnostic radiologist in the outpatient mammography division of a leading teaching hospital.

One summer I was made housekeeper to my own family, making menus and shopping lists. It was my mother's idea of teaching me to be a grown-up. The main thing I remember is my father being so delighted to get roast duck.

How many people do you know who love their jobs? Did your dad love his job? Was he passionate about it? Because I am. I love it. I love the relationships. I love teaching. I love the competition. I love everything about it.

I just want my daughter to be respectful and nice to people. I want her to understand the importance of being humble.

The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.

When you meet someone who gives you good advice for your own, you must have the humility to listen.

We are taught that corporations have a soul, which is the most terrifying news in the world.

Plus on s'est trompé dans la vie, plus on donne de leçons.

You're so hateful. - I learned at your feet.

We just want you to be happy.' Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how. So many lessons and opportunities and advantages, and they never taught me how to be happy.

The climax is when you are taught the lesson that Punch never learns, and you are caught and charged with murder.

They don't have regular time at school, you know. They have periods. All of a sudden an alarm goes off and you're supposed to drop what you're doing and rush off to a different room with a different teacher to do something completely different! How can anybody learn like that?

My students are very motivated, he finished in a disappointed tone. Kids these days, Dan commiserated.

We only feel like being good for those to whom we are attached to. We weren't meant to raise and teach children whose hearts we did not have. We have resorted to all kinds of tricks with our children because we don't have enough natural attachment power to do our job. When we use these tricks, we insult the relationship.

Many charismatics do not know the difference between legalism and self-discipline.

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.

When you're not a good man yourself you respect a good man. Now I'd prefer to die with a good man around. A good man teaches a lot of nonsense and a bad man teaches truth [...] I'm not the one to teach the boy nonsense.

I taught you that there is never any end to that question, because, as I once defined it for you (yes, I confess a weakness for improvised definitions), history is that impossible thing: the attempt to give an account with incomplete knowledge, of actions themselves undertaken with incomplete knowledge.

L'insegnamento è l'antagonismo tra insegnante e studente. E' quello che viene prodotto dalla perseveranza dell'uno e la resistenza dell'altro. E' una lunga e dura lotta contro una resistenza naturale

If you have to be hit over the head to learn something about yourself, you'll be someone who thinks that people only learn if you hit them over the head.

teaching is not for a teacher simply to persuade students of his or her own perspective. Rather, the goal is to broaden students' minds by helping them empathetically understand a variety of perspectives while training them to think critically for themselves.