Teach Quotes

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.

Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol,' but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

Instead of making people victims of people who are successful, we should be telling people, 'Look, you are having a hard time, I feel bad for you. Let's look at what you're doing, let's teach you how to succeed. Let's give you the tools to succeed as opposed to turning everybody into victims.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.