Top 1200 Teach Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.

What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would do my homework and I think I could do a decent job. I don't think a degree in education would make me a better teacher. I sometimes teach in college. I don't teach for long periods of time, but I give workshops and I think I can communicate stuff. So, it's about communicating.

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

People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age. What we want them to know five years from now needs to be part of our conversation with them today. Teach them in every circumstance; let every dilemma, every consequence, every trial that they may face provide an opportunity to teach them how to hold on to gospel truths.

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.

I've been lucky enough to have good coaches my whole career who just teach you the right way, teach you the fundamentals.

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself

Teach positively, never abuse kids in the teaching process. I believe it is cowardly to teach in a negative way, to insult players, or challenge their manhood.

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child is here to teach me as much about myself and how I need to grow, as I am here to teach them.

Everyone teaches you something. Some teach you what to do, and others teach you what not to do.

You can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic.

When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...

Education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

In one way I would like to teach, but I have no qualifications to teach Westerners.

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?

You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.

I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.

You can't teach standup comedy. You can teach someone how to formulate a joke, but making it funny is different.

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

I'll teach my kids right from wrong, but I'm never going to teach them that they can't have fun. They'll make mistakes; they'll do things they regret, like we all have.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.

You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.

A good play can teach so much about culture. One can also improvise a lot with the medium and use it to teach kids.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don’t teach you a thing about death. There’s no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.

If you're going to teach a child, teach him properly.

My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.

You teach a little by what you say. You teach most by what you are.

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

People say a lot of things, like "You can't teach personality" or "You can't teach charisma," and I find that it's not true.

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.

People don't understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn't wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

It's stimulating to teach a new course. To teach a course three times in a row is, I think, about the maximum for me. On the second year - you know, the saying is that first year you learn how to teach the course, the second year you do it right, and the third year you're coasting and you had better move on to something else.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.

You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.