What To Teach Quotes

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

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

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 now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

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

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."

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.

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

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.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

Dear parents, teach your children to pray. Pray with them.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held

It's tiring to be asked the same questions all day long: 'What is Gangnam style?' and 'Teach me how to dance.'

There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

Motherhood was the beginning of my own journey asking the question, 'Why am I here?' I had to stop and think: What am I doing to teach my daughter? What do I believe in?

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.

The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand youre going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.

The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and a dream to share.

Teach like your hair's on fire!

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!