#teach

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#as far as #cannot #communicate #discuss #embracing

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#america #american #consumer #democracy #living

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#cannot #emphasize #enough #good #good teacher

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed. ↗

— Al Green

#believe #child #everyone #fail #i

You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#make #really #someone #something #teach

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail. ↗

— Brian Greene

#fail #general #general relativity #going #hard

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#definition #old #poetry #teacher #understand

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#could #did #doctor #down #drink

If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them. ↗

— Luis Guzman

#i #learn #teach #them #want

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture