#teach

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#get #going #literate #read #teaching

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

#base #cities #corrupts #currency #deeds

Old age and the passage of time teach all things. ↗

— Sophocles

#all things #old #old age #passage #teach

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#believed #due #efforts #his #i

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#american #foreign #indisputable #judge #lights

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#calculator #depth #emotional #equally #how

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#give #sciences #should #taste #teach

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#been #books #computer #eclectic #extremely

I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.' ↗

— Freddie Prinze

#ask #call #god #grade #hand

The more you know the more you need to learn. ↗

— Steve Ahn

#school #student #teaching #education