Quotes About Teaching

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.

If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students' sensibilities, we are not going to be able to teach in a way that actually matters. We're not going to be able to teach about sex, gender, race, religion, or violence.

I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.

I am an ocean lover and fish watcher and had studied marine biology and even taught marine sciences before I got into animation.

I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math.

I studied secondary education.

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston - a lot of people have studied with me. It's paying my dues.

I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they made you achieve the best you could do. That's what a teacher does: he infuses you with passion for something.

I studied marine biology, even taught marine science before I got into animation, so I had an interest in that field and those animals.

I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago... the more I started to realize that there was this chasm between the historical Jesus and the Jesus that I had been taught about in church.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.