Teaching Quotes

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

History is Philosophy teaching by examples.

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you're not really teaching them anything.

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.

The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.