Educational Role Quotes

I think public life for me has a slightly didactic role, OK.

I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to be too didactic in a song because it doesn't make for good music. And I think the role of songs can be to inspire people but there needs to education and prose to back that up.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

The major role of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is not legislative; it is educational.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

Kids listen to performers and we have a duty to give them certain critical information.

I don't know that I'd want to do acting as a job, not as a proper job. I'd like to do it as a hobby. I want to be a supply teacher. I'd like to be one of those teachers that kids really like.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

One bright and energetic [Communist] party member working as an educational director or editor in a strong local union is worth a dozen members occupied with the lesser duties of settling grievances …. Such a spot gives a party member an outlet through which to pour a steady stream of Communist propaganda.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

I don't want to be ignorant in my daughter's eyes.

Critics at their best are independent voices; people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers. I really do think of myself as a teacher.

It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

As artists, our primary function is not to be educators - but we are at a time in history, where for us, our history needs to give context for stories that we hope to tell down the road.

The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.