2,279 Quotes About Teaching

Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and its knowing how to use the information you get.

If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.

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

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.