What To Teach Quotes

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language

Now, the past has plenty to teach us, but I don't think it should be allowed to detain us against our will.

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and enlighten people.

Teach your sweet child to leave the beautiful flowers in the soil.

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.

The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power.

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium.

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

Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.

Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that's going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.