Quotes About Teaching

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

More drills for poor readers do not work.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends.

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.

Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.