Quotes About Teaching

People love learning new things and you need to understand they want to learn it as easy as possible.

He's just another man who wants to teach me something.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

I cheat my boys every chance I get, I want to make 'em sharp.

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

I'm supporting an up-and-coming director. It's the time in my life that I want to share what I know and pass it along.

Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak

My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.

Are we still lecturing—which, as the writer George Leonard observed, is the "best way to get information from teacher's notebook to student's notebook without touching the student's mind"?

I never thought I'd have to give you-a former Sunday School teacher-a lecture on ethics." "Former Sunday School teachers don't go around without their underwear." "You show me where it says that in the Bible.

Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

Come, little one, and let us learn of love.

Sherman: You are the worst. Rick: You taught me everything I know.

But teaching VBS may actually be a more painful way to my grave.

Before you can learn anything else, your teachers must have taught you that your voice matters.

Susan Wise Bauer