Quotes About Teaching

Anyone who thinks about it can see that for human beings the teaching and following of morality is something necessary.

Teachers are Peter Pans in a way. It's so easy to lose track of time. You forget that you're getting older, because they're always eight years old. You teach in the same classroom year after year. You wear the same tie. You tell the same jokes. Everything is always the same.

Teachers know that love is a vital part of education. Good teaching is infused with it. The most successful classrooms are brimming with it. Love is the reason people go into teaching -- love for a subject and love for children.

We all know the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. But I contend there is a fourth -- one that is vitally important. You need it to teach the other three. In fact, you need it to teach everything effectively. It touches on all teaching and learning. The fourth R is rapport.

We all know the symbols for school: an apple, a red one-room schoolhouse, a bell. But those symbols never really worked for me.... If I had to pick one symbol that represents teaching, it wouldn't be any of these. It would be the bulletin board.

I tried to keep my classroom tidy. I just wasn't very good at it. Those books on getting organized don't work for classrooms anyway. Take the popular The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, for example. The author recommends discarding anything that doesn't spark joy. Well, teachers can't do that! If we did, our kids wouldn't get any papers returned because we all would have tossed out our correcting baskets.

As a rule, children shouldn't whine in class, of course -- unless it's at the end of story time. Then it's okay.

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

Beware of the tendency to preach about Christianity, and try to preach Christ.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk, and the next 12 months telling them to sit down and be quiet.

We know women deacons taught the faith to newly baptized women and to children, and we can assume these women carried the teachings to their homes and families as well. As the Church grew, its teachings continued to be passed on by women, while its regulations continued to be developed by men.

There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.

My dad was teaching in Kenya, and my grandparents came to visit me there. They brought me to England, and my dad continued to teach for a bit after, so I just continued to live with my grandparents, because that became home, really.

Between acting jobs, I'd go visit my hometown and college town to see family and friends. But I would also teach acting, dance, singing, and audition techniques in high schools and colleges. I take great pride in all the survival jobs I worked, because I learned so much from them.

My father was a German architect and graphic designer, who travelled all over the world, teaching teachers on how to teach. On one such visit to the Max Mueller Bhavan in Delhi, he met my mother.

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.

Theatre remains my first and last love and even when I am noot doing plays, I am associated with it in some way. For instance, I go to Mumbai University as a visiting faculty and talk about the medium.

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

I think everybody that coaches... there's something about their playing career when they're teaching and explaining... you know, you visualize yourself in that position, then you can explain it.

Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.

Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.

From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.