Quotes About Teaching

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

I always had good students.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.

There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

I'll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

You don't become a good teacher by applying techniques; you don't become a good teacher by using the latest hot methodologies that are being promoted in this or that handbook.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

One should be able to teach adequately and feel good about it.

Have good examples and stories to drive home your content.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

I like playing. I wouldn't be a good coach. I don't have the patience to be a coach.

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?