Teaching Quotes

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
Colin Firth

Medical, Parents, Sense

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
John Milton

Live, Forget, Her

In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.
Godfrey Reggio

Justice, Person, Young

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman

Alone, Teacher, Learning

Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
Rowan D. Williams

God, Character, Sex

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.
Erica Jong

Life, Poetry, Writing

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?
Willie Aames

Death, Jesus, Found

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

Education, Students, Test

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.
Jonathan Kozol

Love, School, Used

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
Jonathan Kozol

Great, Hope, Freedom

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.
Jonathan Kozol

Great, True, Find

There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.
Jonathan Kozol

School, Bad, Understand

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun

Work, Cannot, Maybe

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.
Maya Lin

Life, Money, Learning

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.
Jane Goodall

Life, Writing, Thought

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

Gay, Person, Public

I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
Ted Allen

Food, Job, Hard

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.
Hugh Mackay

Children, Parents, Kids

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
Imogen Cunningham

Talent, Learners

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
Paul Wellstone

Society, Personal, Themselves

Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Life, Health, Fitness

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
John Carmack

Love, Happy, Game

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.
Tom DeLay

Parents, Control, Working

When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wanted to be healthy - to have fun playing soccer with my son or teaching my daughter to shoot hoops. Then it was so much easier to say no to carbs, soda, or dessert, and the weight just came off.
Alison Sweeney

Fun, Loser, Fighting

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.
John Engler

Financial, Teachers, Rewards

Teaching is the royal road to learning.
Jessamyn West

Learning, Road, Royal

Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.
Ashley Greene

Cool, Fight, Yeah

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.
Arne Duncan

Choose, Students, Potential

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.
Cathy Guisewite

Mom, Enjoy, After

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Manuel Puig

Good, Young, Contact

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