Quotes about teach
teach audience
Your audience teaches you how to be funny. Woody Allen
teacher giving waiting
While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like. Woody Allen
teacher
Let Nature be your teacher William Wordsworth
teacher attitude kids
Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: "You just change your attitude now please, young man." This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God, which is a fantastic way of saying I don't like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn't worth a dime in the open market. William Saroyan
teacher humans human-beings
I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too! William Saroyan
teacher attitude kids
Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man. William Saroyan
teacher criminal-mind used-in-criminal-minds
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast. William Nicholson
teaching responsibility discovery
Through scientific discovery and technological innovation, we enlist the forces of the natural world to solve many of the uniquely human problems we face - feeding and providing energy to agrowing population, improving human health, taking responsibility for protecting the environment and the global ecosystem, and ensuring our own Nation's security. Scientific discoveries inspire and enrich us, teaching us about the mysteries of life and the nature of the world. William J. Clinton
teaching learning association
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations. William James
teaching eye bystanders
. . . [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct. William James
teacher teaching self-love
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure. William James
teacher children educational
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these. William James
teacher philosophy educational
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. William James
teacher educational philosophy
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher. William James
teacher philosophy educational
The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows. William James
teacher educational philosophy
The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence. William James
teacher educational philosophy
You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action. William James
teacher philosophy spring
But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task. William James
teacher art real
It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher. William James
teacher art teaching
Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help. William James
teacher stuff behavior
The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists. William James
teacher thinking mind
The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out. William James
teacher important realizing
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit. William James
teacher art teaching
The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist. William James
teacher art teaching
What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand." William James
teacher art teaching
The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great. William James
teacher art teaching
Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least. William James
teacher math exercise
I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up. Will Ferrell
teacher garden curiosity
Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony. Will Durant
teacher garden joy
Cultivate your garden Do not depend upon teachers to educate you follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere. Will Durant
teacher school america
I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more. Sarah Palin
teacher smart heart
and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Sara Zarr
teacher stuck firm
Joe Wright [was] almost like a teacher, to be firm with me, that really stuck with me. And that helped me as I've gotten older. Saoirse Ronan