Quotes About Teaching Them Young

#1. Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.

Lawrence Young

#2. Other young women were more than kind when it came to teaching him the basics of makeup artistry, but he did not like the idea of foundation, knowing enough alchemy to realize it had historically been made with lead and mercury.

Thomm Quackenbush

#3. I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#4. But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. I think in terms of educating a group of readers, MFA programs are very good. I just think the model of MFA programs in which a young poet goes through the program, publishes a series of books, gets teaching jobs, that's a bit at risk.

Edward Hirsch

#6. They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

Miroslav Vitous

#7. Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

Andrew Card

#8. It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.

John Taylor Gatto

#9. Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.

Myles Munroe

#10. You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

Mem Fox

#11. I like teaching. I would like to help out with the young catchers; be there for them and obviously, you know, what it takes to get here. That's the biggest thing, I think.

Jorge Posada

#12. The process of education is not generally a process of teaching people to think and ask questions. It ... is mostly one of teaching the young what is and getting them into a mood where they will go on keeping it that way.

Elizabeth Hawes

#13. My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

Donnie Yen

#14. Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

Hosea Ballou

#15. Young men just don't know what it means to be a man. There are so many lies about what it means to be a man whether that be get a bunch of girls or get a bunch of money or don't cry and don't have emotions. Nobody is teaching them how to be men.

Trip Lee

#16. I do a lot of teaching ... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive.

Erica Jong

#17. Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to do more to bring real art, passions, teachings, caring, and resources into the emptiness of young peoples' lives.

Luis J. Rodriguez

#18. Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.

Charles E. Young

#19. Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.

Heather Wilson

#20. From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

Rex Hunt

#21. Dwarf mothers didn't handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature.

Erik Bundy

#22. I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

Marguerite Young

#23. I very much believe in teaching young people about philanthropy, and to give back.

Lynn Schusterman

#24. Do not make the mistake of thinking you're unique, When we are young, we believe we can wrap life around our little finger, but life has a way of teaching us who is stronger. In The end, you are but a woman.

C.W. Gortner

#25. The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists.

Alan Tower Waterman

#26. In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.

Godfrey Reggio

#27. A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.

Grace Paley

#28. Our children, our grandchildren, our students, our young athletes. We need to be pouring leadership principles into them constantly, and teaching, and instructing them how to become good leaders in the future.

Pat Williams

#29. If you want to EMPOWER our future ... start TEACHING our young!

Timothy Pina

#30. Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes.

Darren Shan

#31. All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.

William J. Clinton

#32. We all should know what the Right's agenda is here: privatize education, kill public schools, and transfer the teaching of the young to private entities.

Barry W. Lynn

#33. Is this the same teaching, when Christ says to the rich young man, "Sell all that thou hast, and give it to the poor"; and when the priest says, "Sell all that thou hast and...give it to me"?

Soren Kierkegaard

#34. I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

Barry Hannah

#35. I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.

William Devane

#36. I said that we use digital "passbacks" to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you. Of

Sherry Turkle

#37. I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

Liam Neeson

#38. I am teaching Perry grammar. He says he wants to learn to speak properly. I told him he should not call his Aunt Tom an old beast but he said he had to because she wasn't a young beast.

L.M. Montgomery

#39. I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

Isaac Stern

#40. Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes
that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.

Lord Byron

#41. I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

Eva LaRue

#42. It was one of the only times in my teaching career that I got angry and showed it in class. I was young and inexperienced, and I thought certain standards were respected and understood.

Azar Nafisi

#43. Instead of standing on a stage each day, dispensing knowledge to my young charges, I should guide them as they approach their own understandings.

Donalyn Miller

#44. My favorite thing about coaching? Teaching. Being around young people, just watching a player grow and develop. You know, a young man comes in with dreams and goals and ambitions and just helping him reach (them). It's like your dad watching you grow up and like me watching my boys grow.

Tubby Smith

#45. Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

John W. Gardner

#46. Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.

Dalai Lama

#47. Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism ... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Henry Seidel Canby

#48. She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis.

John Horne Burns

#49. In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

Charles J. Shields

#50. With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.

Irvin D. Yalom

#51. I like teaching, too," said Gilbert. "It's good training, for one thing. Why, Anne, I've learned more in the weeks I've been teaching the young ideas of White Sands than I learned in all the years I went to school myself.

L.M. Montgomery

#52. Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.

Arne Duncan

#53. The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

Jerome Bruner

#54. Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult ... Many young teachers have a tendency to seek popularity, resorting to tactics that can create endless problems.

Jim Brown

#55. Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Manuel Puig

#56. A college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change ... what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.

Leroy S Rouner

#57. I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would ...

Steve Wozniak

#58. I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people

Bo Ryan

#59. The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

John Locke

#60. I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#61. We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.

Ellen Pompeo

#62. There's one thing you can start doing right now that will change how you communicate with any young human: Remember what it's like to be one.

Justin Young

#63. A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young.

Soraya Diase Coffelt

#64. The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

Christopher Vogler

#65. I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Barbara Jordan

#66. In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.

William Barrett

#67. Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.

John Lyly

#68. If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

Gilbert Highet