Quotes by Teaching It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the going gets hard for the student and help is needed. Robert Audi toleranceteachinghelping The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance. Robert Audi distanceemotionalteaching One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored. Robert Audi unconventionalteachinglong A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room. Robert Baden-Powell six-monthswisdomteaching Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University Robert B. Parker universitystrongteaching When one teaches, two learn. Robert A. Heinlein teachingclevereducation His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching. Robert A. Heinlein taughtteachingself It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself. Robert A. Heinlein following-your-own-pathleaderteaching Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, Robert Burns natureteachingteacher God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel. Robert Burns teachingteacherfather There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation. Robert Cialdini differencesteachinganswers At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.' Robert Cialdini assessmentteachingclass From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle. Robert A. Heinlein importantteachingmath What I saw quite clearly in the '80s, before the internet, was that the whole world was shifting toward digital formats, and that didn't matter whether it's movies or writing or whatever. It was something that was coming. And with the invention of the World Wide Web in the early '90s, when we were teaching our first courses, or the arrival of the internet by way of the browser, which opened up the internet to everybody - soon it was just revolutionary. Robert Coover teachingmatterwriting I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship. Rick Riordan teachingbookchildren I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers. Rick Riordan teachingwritinglong I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen. Rick Riordan classroomteachingkids What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. Robert Burns teachinglatinschool The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable or unfavorable about the beliefs of evangelical Christians, Catholics, Socinians, Deists, pantheists, materialists, or fetish worshipers, who all claim equal rights under American institutions? His teaching will indeed be "the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet omitted." Robert Dabney teachingchristianlaw The more I live, the more I recognize that the teaching moments in my youth, especially those provided by my parents, have shaped my life and made me who I am. It is impossible to overestimate the influence of parents who understand the hearts of their children. Robert D. Hales teachingmotherchildren«148149150151152153154155156157158»
