Teaching Quotes

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
Stephen Carter

Family, Obligation, Civility

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
Marvin Olasky

War, Parents, Two

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
Oscar Robertson

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Work, Peace, Knowledge

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.
Robert B. Parker

Strong, Whatever, Word

When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.
Thom Gunn

Gay, Few, Started

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
Phillip E. Johnson

Fear, Science, Reason

I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.
Dianna Agron

Family, Money, School

There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.
Richard Dreyfuss

Political, Democracy, Thought

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.
Richard Dreyfuss

Great, History, Teacher

I love teaching.
Harry Mathews

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
Itzhak Perlman

Important, Three, Listening

I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.
Itzhak Perlman

Important, Different, Learn

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

Someone, Human, Soul

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.
Ann Beattie

Days, Aim, Took

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.
Gil Scott-Heron

Good, Made, Story

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.
Diane Cilento

School, Excited, Intent

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.
Tobias Wolff

Writing, Trying, Working

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
Tobias Wolff

Writing, Feelings, Literature

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.
Pranab Mukherjee

Life, Education, Science

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.
John Cameron

Work, Time, Medical

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

Practical, Provide

I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
Sally Schneider

Busy, Cooking, Listening

As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the missions of service and teaching instead. The potential rewards for our country, now that that early choice has led him into the White House, are enormous.
Frank Rich

Career, Him, Down

What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?
William P. Leahy

Women, Men, Help

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

May, Church, Bring

By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.
William P. Leahy

May, Country, Means

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren

Art, Discovery, Assisting

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
Simeon Poisson

Life, Good, Two

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

Thoughts, Creating, Enjoyed

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