Quotes About Teaching

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.

The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

Dad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew.

My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and set the instruments, as well as the basics of taking off and landing.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.

I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age.

I may not be the best dad but I taught my son how to get free samples at the mall.

I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

Didacticism is the death of art.

Jesus did not ask us to believe that his death was a blood sacrifice, that he was going to die for our sins.

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?