Teaching Quotes

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Noam Chomsky

Today, Dead, Either

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.
Jacques Derrida

Today, School, Cannot

Technology is teaching us to be human again.
Simon Mainwaring

Technology, Human, Again

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.
Liam Neeson

Teacher, Help, Trying

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
William Jennings Bryan

America, Evolution, Suffers

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

Greatest, Story, Since

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
Mike Krzyzewski

Love, Group, Loved

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
Edward de Bono

Thinking, Five, Hours

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.
Jonathan Kozol

Greatest, Pretty, Between

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
Samuel Dash

Money, Experience, Teacher

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.
Ricky Martin

Powerful, Simple, Understand

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

Profession, Exalted

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling

Food, American, Blind

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

Faith, Good, Government

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
Loretta Lynn

Country, Big, Kids

I am teaching more. That is what I do best.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Father, Parents, Different

If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
Danica McKellar

Life, Love, Nothing

I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
Danica McKellar

Love, Time, Book

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun

Art, Lost, Tradition

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Education, Become, Nation

More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.
Tony Bennett

Else, Anybody, Thank

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
William Glasser

Job, May, Effective

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.
Robert Sternberg

Good, Teacher, May

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

Office, Honorable, Ought

My Food Network shows, 'Emeril Live' and 'Essence of Emeril,' are not in production right now, but I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily leaving Food Network. I have a lot of television still in me. I enjoy teaching people, so it's just a matter of time before I do something new.
Emeril Lagasse

Time, Food, Live

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
Twyla Tharp

Study, Able, Last

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.
Twyla Tharp

Family, War, Mother

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.
Snoop Dogg

Time, Men, Help

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current; writing; teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.
Eliot Spitzer

Love, Government, Writing

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