Teaching Quotes

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.