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

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 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.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

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?

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

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

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

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

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

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

Teach a parrot the terms ‚supply and demand‘ and you’ve got an economist.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

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.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

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.

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.

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

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

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.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

I give the children education.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

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.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

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.

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.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

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

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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 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.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

I teach children to be winners.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

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

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

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

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

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

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.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.