Quotes About Teaching

What lesson do I want to teach in this moment? Again, the goal of discipline isn't to give a consequence. We want to teach a lesson—whether it's about self-control, the importance of sharing, acting responsibly, or anything else.

It begins with rethinking what discipline really means, reclaiming it as a term that's not about punishment or control, but about teaching and skill building—and doing so from a place of love, respect, and emotional connection.

veces necesitamos aguardar a que los niños estén listos para aprender. Si los niños se encuentran alterados o descontrolados, es el peor momento para intentar enseñarles nada. De hecho, estas emociones intensas evidencian que nos necesitan. Nuestra primera tarea es ayudarles a tranquilizarse para que recuperen el control y sepan dominarse. Si

queremos ayudarles a estar preparados para aprender, hay que conectar con ellos. Antes de redirigir su conducta, hay que conectar y consolar. Si los calmamos cuando se hacen alguna herida física, también hemos de ayudarles cuando están emocionalmente trastornados. Y lo haremos validando sus sentimientos y dándoles muchísima empatía enriquecedora. Antes de enseñar, hemos de conectar.

Y si hacemos hincapié en lo positivo? En vez de «Basta de lloriqueos», podríamos decir algo como: «Me gusta más cuando hablas con tu voz normal, ¿puedes repetir eso?» O ser incluso más directo en la enseñanza de la comunicación efectiva: «Pídemelo otra vez, pero con tu voz fuerte de chico mayor.»

The classic experiment I describe next shows that people will not draw from base-rate information an inference that conflicts with other beliefs. It also supports the uncomfortable conclusion that teaching psychology is mostly a waste of time.

Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

I'm not an entertainer - that's not what I do. I want to teach viewers; I want to show them. I want to share my culture.

Too often, teachers and professors misrepresent conservative viewpoints, and intentionally muddle what it means to be a conservative.

What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?

I have been working with UNICEF Peru a lot. I am aiming to educate children, mostly because once adults reach adulthood, your views are shaped. With children, you can really teach them, you can open their eyes to what is really going on. The only way we can open their eyes and free them is by educating them.

I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any kind of a social or political conscience at all, the first thing you want to do is make malevolence recognizable to people, almost as a kind of teaching aid.

I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

For 25 years, I was an assistant professor teaching pediatrics, neurology, pathophysiology, and ethics at my alma mater, Eastern Virginia Medical School. It's been great training for my legislative work - we get in some debates in the classroom that would rival the General Assembly!

Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It's about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we're educated.

I'm starting a virtual school for the world, teaching things the way I wanted to be taught.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

The society we live in has always taught us to believe that a woman of substance is one who has great virtues and moral values.

Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also true that vague consensus on the goodness of these virtues conceals a great deal of actual disagreement over their definitions.

I'm all for education - in fact, I have spent my career extolling its virtues.

Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.

For me coaching is about seeing a vision and trying to sell that vision to the players through a day to day teaching of the job.