Top 1200 Teaching English Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

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

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

I love interviews, meeting fans, teaching workshops, giving speeches... all of it.

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.

I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.

People say that the brain is a muscle and that one of the best exercises for any brain is learning another language and to switch from one to another as much as you can. I've found out that when I have trouble regarding any character or any particular scene in English, sometimes I'll switch to Spanish and I'll solve the problem that I've encountered. If I'm working in Spanish and I don't know how to approach certain scenes or certain emotions, or how to say this and that, I just switch to English to try to solve it that way and it works.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

It helps you as a person when you're teaching something to somebody to understand it even better.

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research.

Classes teaching you how to breathe. I'm 32, I think I've got the hang of it.

Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.

Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive

Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching.

Teaching was an incredible experience, and I miss it a lot, but I also love the job I have now.

Oh, this is going to be fun; he actually thinks he's teaching me something.

My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.

Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.

At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

I love teaching people how to handle their money and I've built a brand on that skill.

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

I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

When I was a kid I was teaching the other kids how to dance the 'Dirty Dog.'

Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.

In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

Technique wasn't my favorite thing to learn, and I doubt I would be great teaching it.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.