Quotes About Teaching

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.

That's simple. You reason with them, and when you're through, I'll take them out and thrash them.

And so he and Ian—who, it turned out, could also knit and was prostrated by mirth at my lack of knowledge—had taught me the simple basics of knit and purl, explaining, between snorts of derision over my efforts, that in the Highlands all boys were routinely taught to knit, that being a useful occupation well suited to the long idle hours of herding sheep or cattle on the shielings.

Without one word of direct explanation or apology, he had given me the message he intended. I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy, too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.

Just as my grandmother taught me, and her grandmother before her.

Tu comprends, mon enfant, mon fils? Comprends-tu? Jamie to Fergus

We keep it so to remember," he said. "To show to the weans, and tell them when they ask—this is what the English are.

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician. That much, Raymond had taught me.

I learned from my dad and my mom somebody should only have to tell you once. Whether it's me getting in trouble, they said I should only have to tell you once. I've kind of took that and made that for all aspects.

I used to think I wanted to be a PE teacher and I worked as a school teaching assistant for a year, but it wasn't for me.

I believe education is much more important than we assume.

Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

I was taught earlier on in this league to control what you can control, and enjoy the moment and team that you're with every day.

I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.

I try to be all ears with all advice.

My parents found me very difficult to educate.

I use humor to educate.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

Educating players and being part of the community are very important.

Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.

I come from a family of educators.