Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shannon Miller

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

Seymour Papert

I tell adults about the experiences of more than a hundred teachers I've interviewed. They tell me that allowing the child to help them learn helped them become better teachers. That's because they no longer had to pretend they were the experts - not only about computers but about other things.

Seymour Papert

We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their vision...not one that succeeds in making apathetic students satisfying minimal standards.

Seymour Papert

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

Seymour Papert

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

Seymour Papert

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

Seth

We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).

Li Hongzhi

We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.

Li Hongzhi

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

Lewis Thomas

It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than seven-times-seven types of ambiguity in science, awaiting analysis. The poetry of Wallace Stevens is crystal-clear alongside the genetic code.

Leslie Fiedler

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Leslie Jamison

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

Leonard Orr

I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.

Len Wein

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Laura Schlessinger

I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

Laura Schlessinger

...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.

Lactantius

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

Kurt Lewin

Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these outstanding personalities. The fundamental ideas of Gestalt theory are the foundation of all our investigations in the field of the will, of affection, and of the personality.

Neil LaBute

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

Neil Postman

Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.

Neil Postman

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

Stephane Mallarme

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

Viktor E. Frankl

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

Vanna Bonta

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

Utah Phillips

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

Tubby Smith

Do you have a passion for what you do and do you love what you do? If you don't, then it can be drudgery, it can be hard, it can be work. But when you find something that you enjoy a lot, then you're more willing to sacrifice a lot of things in order to be successful as a teacher.

Susan Wiggs

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

Susanna Kaysen

Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates.

Suzanne Collins

But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the arena. The teachers didn't go into much more detail, which is surprising, because that was the year District 12's very own Haymitch Abernathy won the crown.

Taron Egerton

I'm into books – I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

Taslima Nasrin

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

Taryn Manning

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

Stephen Mangan

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.