#teach

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#music #poetry #specificity #teaches #us

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#class #days #different #each #education

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders. ↗

— Martin Mull

#art #art school #course #discovery #enjoyed

I learned life from some good teachers. ↗

— Eddie Murray

#good teachers #i #learned #life #some

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cocky #discuss #discussion #know #letting

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#i #implementation #revolution #rules #struggling

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#around #earth #how #insists #like

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#i #itself #job #know #teacher

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#against #attention #critical #detail #devoting

I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#conducting #different #different perspectives #doing #each