Quotes About Teaching

My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is.

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Sometimes a mentor has to be reminded of the principles he has tried to instill in others.

I love music with everything I have, and when I am in a front of a classroom talking about music sometimes someone will ask me a question and it reminds me to really think about something, to really feel something.

Teaching theater, I felt very lucky. In a world where there's few options for someone who graduates with a theater degree, trying to figure out how to make rent and pay the bills, I always gravitated towards teaching jobs and things like that. I wanted to stay close to my passion as well.

I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we really could replace chemical factories with bacteria.

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

Education is all about making sure that the next generation know what our representatives think they should know.

I am on an album with theater icon Billy Porter called the 'Soul of Richard Rodgers.' Our duet is called 'Carefully Taught.'

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened.

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

I think people learn best and are more engaged when it's just normal relatable situations that illustrate the principles they're discussing.

We're having to spend a lot of time teaching our entrepreneurs how to teach and, I tell you, it isn't easy and that's why we should have an immense amount of respect for our teachers.

When you write for kids, people always ask you what lesson you mean to impart. I don't think adult writers get that question. I never mean to teach anybody a lesson, because I don't know anything myself.

I'm a big advocate of a work-for-pay setup rather than an allowance that isn't attached to chores - it's a great way to impart the value of money to your children.

To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world's most advanced education technology, I'd pick the teacher any day for my own children.

I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.

There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.

I will say I miss teaching improv way more than I miss performing improv.

I know there are limits to what a coach can accomplish in improving speechmaking unless the subject is a diligent student of himself.

That's basically what my parents taught me throughout my childhood, being intense and consistent. In my opinion, those are the hardest things to do in the NBA.

In the past, I never gave money to my children when they were young in return for nothing. When one of them approached me to give them cash, I asked them to do some work in exchange for it.