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Quotes About Teaching

I give the children education.
~ Jackie Chan
Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
~ Jaclyn Smith
Some teachers go to their daily task merely upon compulsion; they regard it as intolerable drudgery. Others love the work: they hover around the school-room as long as they can, and never cease to think, and seldom to talk, of their delightful labors.
~ Jacob Abbott
to terrify children with hell is that good for the world
~ Unknown
This infuriated my father, who said BYU was a "meat market" and that if Heavenly Father didn't intend women to understand economics, why did He give them charge of households, and if women weren't intended to understand philosophy, why were they the first teachers of the word, and if they weren't intended to practice psychology, why did the Lord intend they should be mothers?
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
~ Jacques Barzun
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
~ Jacques Barzun
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
~ Jacques Barzun
Taking a preponderance of courses capped at fifteen or so undergraduates is important. Studying with faculty who are well treated by the institution and incentivized to work with you is important. Having the opportunity to be mentored by professors is important. Knowing an institution's pedagogical philosophy is important. Attending a school with a genuine culture of teaching is most important of all.
~ Unknown
Okurken eÄŸitimin kökünde insan? yaratmaya dair belli bir fikrin yatt???n? görüyorsunuz; sanki insan? yaratan eÄŸitimmiÅŸ gibi. Halbuki, iÅŸin doÄŸrusu insan? eÄŸitmek gereksizdir. Tüm eÄŸitimini kendisi edinir. Öyle ya da böyle eÄŸitir kendisini. Elbet bir ÅŸey öÄŸrenmek zorunda kalacak ve bunun için dirsek çürütecektir.
~ Jacques Lacan
This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.
~ Jacques Pepin
I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'
~ Jacques Pepin
To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.
~ Jacques Rancière
To teach what one doesn't know is simply to ask questions about what one doesn't know.
~ Jacques Rancière
Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.
~ Jacques Rancière
Seek Knowledge and adorn it with forbearance and dignity. Be humble to those whom you teach and to those from whom you learn. Don't be tyrannical in your teaching conduct, for you will forfeit that to which you are entitled to (the reward) on account of it.
~ Unknown
The whole art of being a Guru is just this: to constantly puncture people's egos and still manage to remain their friend.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.
~ Jai Courtney
One of the most significant lessons Jesus taught his disciples was to stop looking for God's life in the regimen of rituals and rules. He came not to refurbish religion, but to offer them a relationship.
~ Unknown
I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.
~ Jake Owen
All I wanted was to be a university teacher.
~ Jalal Talabani
That "these people" were ourselves, that this insistence on mistrust of others—that people who looked so very much like each other, who shared a common history of suffering and humiliation and enslavement, should be taught to mistrust each other, even as children, is no longer a mystery to me.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
~ James A. Garfield