Quotes About Teaching

Trust the young. Young people have a lot to contribute, but generation after generation, those who reach power protect that power rather than teach others how to attain it. I resolved that if I ever became successful, I would trust the young.

Somewhere in this process, I begin reading and showing my book to my audience. When I say my audience, I mean a single imaginary child who is a blend of myself as a young person, the students in my wife's classroom of first- through third-graders, and the students from two classrooms I visit regularly in the Bronx, New York.

In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.

You're all over the place usually with young players. You're trying to manage their emotions and teach them NBA situations. It usually takes months, even years, to learn and recognize NBA situations and then to develop a level of competitiveness that's necessary at this level.

Nowhere have I felt so much awesome responsibility than when teaching my daughter that there is no wrong way to be herself - to be a young woman, whatever her size.

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.

I come from a family of educationists and both my parents as well as my younger brother and his wife are teachers.

Anything we can do to educate the younger generation about conservation of energy is great.

It's always been a passion of mine to come out and share some of my knowledge about basketball and the experiences I've had with the younger generation.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

It's always fun to pass on what I've learned to the younger people.

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

The highest grade I've taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I've taught is the 4th grade.

I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.

We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.

Back To Dad' gives a message that every youngster should learn and this is surely going to leave a very strong impact on the masses.

There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.