#teach

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones. ↗

— David Dinkins

#children #columbia #course #fun #go

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#blank #blank page #days #down #five

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#being #figured #get #help #i

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#like #mary #sister #teacher

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. ↗

— Rita Dove

#come #curriculum #early #get #instead

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.' ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#am #being #control #day #full

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#learn #self #teach #twice

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do. ↗

— David Duchovny

#i #i think #kids #like #mom

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. ↗

— Will Durant

#him #learn #men #teaches #than

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. ↗