Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Ability without honor is useless.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‚basic rights.‘

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

I teach children to be winners.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I give the children education.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

I came to America to teach my method – not to enter a research experiment.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I’m very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

The best teacher is very interactive.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.