Quotes for Teaching

I felt I would have the most creative freedom making experimental films and teaching, as I had many good examples of people around me who did just that.

Todd Haynes

Life doesn't always go according to plan, and we don't always act in a way that represents who we are. What matters is that these moments become teaching moments.

Yolanda Hadid

I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.

Danica McKellar

Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that and act accordingly. We should reward and respect great teachers by paying them more, and we should stop rewarding seniority over effectiveness.

Betsy DeVos

I need to stress that I could not be more supportive of great teachers and great teaching, no matter what kind of delivery vehicle they are teaching through. We have to support great teachers. They just have to be freed up to do what they do best.

Betsy DeVos

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

John Dalberg-Acton

Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.

Fabrizio Moreira

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

Heidi Klum

I became a professor myself, teaching bankruptcy and consumer protection. I conducted a national study of mortgage companies in bankruptcy. And what I found was that big banks routinely broke the law.

Katie Porter

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

Liam Neeson

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

Conor Oberst

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.

Leonard Susskind

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Elbert Hubbard

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

Niklaus Wirth

Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride.

Hamza Yusuf

I seem to get totally wrapped up in teaching and working with students during the school year. During the summer, I try to spend time in the real world, writing code for therapy and perhaps for some useful purpose.

Brian Kernighan

We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself.

Zozibini Tunzi