What To Teach Quotes

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Pete Newell told me 'get as much information and learn as much about the game as you can, but use your own personality to teach it.'

I always wanted to teach.

Having a newborn you have to teach yourself what patience is or you'll go crazy.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.

I used to sit when I was a kid, from 14 or 15 on, with a book or a paper or a magazine in front of a mirror and teach myself to speak with a more straight mouth, so it wasn't so pronounced.

In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.

Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off.

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they'll win.

Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

Whatever position we may rise to, be it of MP, CM or PM, nothing can teach us the way villages can.

If your education is not enough, experience will teach you lessons.

We teach in our cultural history that the entire universe is a family. So our association with Nature is much deeper and of a very different kind.

What we teach our children is that earth is your mother that provides; she's a giver. So, please first ask forgiveness from the mother earth before you step on to it and cause it pain.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.

I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.

I already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people?

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.

My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.

I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach students to value themselves and to not put others down.

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.

I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent.

I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.

Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.

Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market failures in the core of curriculum.

I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.

It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.

I just love going out and listening to people. People can teach us a lot.

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.

You would hope that the supposed best of American educational institutions would teach its students about America as an institution.

If our presidents, or potential presidents, don't know this or don't articulate [an America ideal], that's a blown opportunity. The president can teach as well as lead.

One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books aloud when I start nearing the end.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.

My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income. And I got fascinated with it, so she backed off and let me do it.

It's going to take about a year or two for the transfer to be completed. We have a certification program so professionals can teach deep listening.