Academic Instruction Quotes

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.

To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.

I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

I want teachers to teach, and I want Oreos to be eaten.

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

Education, education, education

Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the physical sciences, but formal studies isolated each branch of science.” I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vinci’s such as access to more information, materials, and methods.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

Teachers ... preach "the superiority of the intelligence"; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i.e. from exactly the same passion for the practical.

The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.