Quotes About Teaching

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

When it comes to training I do that through teaching.

In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

Teaching is performance art.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.

What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

You can not teach art, it's not to be taught, but felt and lived, or else it is naught.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.