Quotes About Teaching

Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. That is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.

I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.

You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.

Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

I've always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.

When I want something, I want it now, and Daft Punk taught me to be more patient.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

You think when gym teachers were younger, they're thinking, "You know, I want to teach...but I don't want to read. How about kickball for 40 years?"

I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.