Quotes About Teaching

I'm always interested in, I would say, not only sharing my wisdom, but acquiring other people's wisdom as well.

I love sharing my experience with others, especially students who are eager to learn the business.

Not that I did not have any other skills, but I loved teaching students, sharing with them my knowledge in sciences, maths or languages.

I had a really fantastic time shooting 'Bad Teacher.' I loved every second of it.

When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could.

The pictures I appear in are shown in school rooms all over the country.

Helping teach my son right from wrong, what to do and how to be a man, just about life in general, same thing with my daughter, it's just very important to me.

I just feel like kids learn by example, and if you want to teach your kid to be kind, you can't be mean at them.

That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

There can be no resolution leading to growth until the present situation has been faced completely and you have opened to it with mindfulness, allowing the roughness of the situation itself to sand down your own rough edges. In other words, you must be willing to let itself to become your teacher.

I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive. Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered a crime, not a religion.

nowhere for victims of abuse to turn. . . . I would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive." Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered "a crime, not a religion.

If you treat people as monuments you limit the capacity to teach. (on Armchair Expert podcast)

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed teaching students 'the full range of scientific views' about Darwinian evolution.

Suffering doesn't teach you about yourself from a textbook—it teaches you from experience. It empties you so that by faith you can be filled with His Spirit.

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.

It is a fact, indeed, that most of the great teachers of mankind have been not writers but speakers. Think of Pythagoras, Christ, Socrates, the Buddha, and so on. And since I have spoken of Socrates, I would like to say something about Plato. I remember Bernard Shaw said that Plato was the dramatist who invented Socrates

It will be said that the conclusion no doubt preceded its proofs. But what man can content himself with seeking out proofs for a thing that not even he himself believes in, or whose teaching he cares naught for?

Parable follows on the heels of confession.

he understood with a certain bitterness that he could expect nothing from those pupils who accepted his doctrine passively, but that he could expect something from those who occasionally dared to oppose him.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.