#taught

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't. ↗

— David Eddings

#college #faculty #four #got #i

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#because #call #dad #father #game

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls. ↗

— Black Elk

#doing #just #learn #learned #like

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#arriving #been #first #knowledge #lessons

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh. ↗

— Robert Englund

#bridges #fresh #how #jeff #keep

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#i think #place #school #should #taught

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspects #building #character #comes #educated

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know. ↗

— James Brown

#i #know #taught #them

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#children #come #education #enough #how

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always