Quotes About Teaching

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

Arms crossed over that massive chest, the lion looked down his nose at Smitty as only a cat could. "What else have you taught my son? How to chase his tail? Lick his ass?" "Nah, I stuck with the cat basics. Park lazy ass under tree, sleep twenty hours, eat all the food after the females do all the hunting, take a few minutes to roar, then sleep another twenty hours.

It was informational. About how to perform oral sex on men. You know, one man teaching another. It was really fascinating and I've always wondered about the techniques he discussed—ow. Ow! You're squeezing a little hard, Van Holtz." . . . "Well, if you're willing to be my test subject—ack!

He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.

The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me - and the wheel turns.

The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

Fears are just conditioning. They don't exist. They are something that we are taught by people who are afraid or seek to make us afraid. It is time to unload the baggage.

Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.

When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in all the time.

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.