#teaching

We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature. ↗

— Phillip M. Hoose

#high-school #literature #teaching #life

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#book #case #i #kind #new

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. ↗

— John Ruskin

#control #devoted #education #impudence #itself

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#exalted #i #i think #profession #should

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#days #economic #economic opportunities #elsewhere #go

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#about #american #blind #englishman #leading

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#absorb #bedrock #between #difference #discipline

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

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#film #film school #give #happening #idea

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#i #strong #teaching #too #university