Teach Quotes

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.

My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

While we teach, we learn.

I teach that all men are mad.

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.