Quotes About Teaching

One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to be really smart, and you need to be taught in a carefully thought out, methodical sequence.

Guys that are young in the league. Guys that you get to teach them your way. It's not a bad thing. It's actually a good thing. It's working for them. Teach them that way, and I guarantee they aren't as stubborn and hard-headed as I was, which sometimes is good, sometimes is bad. But like I always say, I'm not going to change who I am.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

My dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.

The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

I think Jay-Z is probably my best student, and I can say that he listens, and that's what always made him special.

In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my academic role. However, if I don't believe I'm helping my students towards a fuller and more empowering relationship with the world, then I'll resign.

All students can learn.

Having students was so inspiring.

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

I taught high school students Spanish.

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

I always forgave my students, like Jesus.

I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes.