Quotes About Teaching

Sometimes it's like teaching a kid how to swim; sometimes you throw them in the deep end and tell them, 'Don't die. Keep moving your arms.' It's kind of like that with acting sometimes, where there's a lot of trust afforded.

I'm a qualified swimming instructor.

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.

Not only are most of our citizens fathomlessly ignorant of the glories of American literature, a fast-growing percentage of our students are no longer taught much about any works of American art, be they novels, paintings, symphonies or ballets.

When I was a young child, professional aspiration was synonymous to me with the clatter of my mother's high-heeled boots as she went off to teach each 1970s weekday morning, carrying her graded blue books under her arm.

Reading, writing, math… Things such as that were a lot easier to teach. It was my hope that if enough people were taught some of the old ways, that people would not have such a hard time progressing. The most important lesson of all though, was to care. Teach people to care about the land around them, and that they could really make a difference. Bright

Responsive teaching and assessing means we are always teaching for understanding, continuously checking for understanding, and adjusting instruction as needed.

In schools where learning is taken very seriously, there are few interruptions. See what you can do to change the culture of your school so that teaching and learning are "sacred.

I suppose parents try to teach their children what they need to survive in their own environment.

A reproach given with great kindness is often well received, whereas when given with sharpness it produces no results. Thus Christ tells us: "Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart.

Thus talent sometimes wishes to correct genius, as if the eaglet wished to teach the eagle to fly.

One may at least surmise that this esoteric teaching had a close and direct connection with wisdom, and that it did not only appeal to reason or to logic, as is the case with philosophy, which for this reason has been called rational knowledge - the philosophers of antiquity maintained that rational knowledge, that is, philosophy, is not the highest degree of knowledge, is not wisdom.

Pour répondre à cette question, nous rappellerons que l'initiation est essentiellement une transmission, et nous ajouterons que ceci peut s'entendre en deux sens différents : d'une part, transmission d'une influence spirituelle, et, d'autre part, transmission d'un enseignement traditionnel. [...]

Compassion can be learned through example.

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

Jesus Christ is alive and here to teach his people himself. He has not contracted laryngitis. His voice is not hard to hear, his vocabulary is not difficult to understand. — Richard Foster

MAY 27 CRUCIAL TO THE hermeneutical approach is the Mahayana principle of the four reliances. These are: (i) reliance on the teaching, not on the teacher; (ii) reliance on the meaning, not on the words that express it; (iii) reliance on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional meaning; and (iv) reliance on the transcendent wisdom of deep experience, not on mere knowledge.

The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about?... Controversies about…teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of mathematics.

We all should know what the Right's agenda is here: privatize education, kill public schools, and transfer the teaching of the young to private entities.

The philosophy "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work. Modeling is more powerful than words in teaching your children how to behave. Set a good example for your child!

Next thing we know you'll be teaching Podge to say 'mirror' instead of 'looking glass' and 'serviette' instead of 'napkin.

Mi papá va dejando regadas sílabas por el camino de la conversación, «claro», «normal», «obvio», como migas de pan para que yo no me pierda.

I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.