Quotes About Teaching

A young child does not give proper weight to words alone. His attention is secured when those words are punctuated by a sound spanking.

You must regard parenting as one of your most important tasks while you have children at home. This is your calling. You must raise your children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. You cannot do so without investing yourself in a life of sensitive communication in which you help them understand life and God's world.

Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.

Instructing a child's heart is not simply transferring data from parent to child. It is impressing the heart with truth. Solomon

Your greatest need is to understand deep truths from the Bible. Solid parenting skills are built on solid truth.

Train your children to use occasions when hurt to learn how to love God and deepen their trust and confidence in him.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism)

I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something - I worked in HR at the time - they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.

I tell all my students, 'Learn how to code.' It's sort of like learning Spanish in third grade. When you're still young and you still have that sort of agile mind, that's when you should do it.

We've all had classes with a professor so bland and monotone that their lectures sound like Mitt Romney reading 'Paradise Lost' from a blown speaker.

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.

My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.

I always thought I was going to end up teaching ninth grade, specifically, because I had a lot of really formative influences, I think, at that fork in the road, where a lot of crucial decisions are made by young folks.

Being on a show like Dancing with the Stars for what I do, that is the top of the game. There is really no other job that gives you the satisfaction of choreographing, of teaching and getting the recognition in that spectrum.

I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don't talk to them so much about 'Abba' and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing class where we could talk about anything except for the drawing. No one could even mention it.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

Love is a spiritual grace. We learn it from God.

I grew up with a sense of music being a very spiritual experience while playing in church and with parents who were socially aware, always teaching me to look beyond the obvious in understanding how the world works.