Teaching Skills Quotes

If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

Entrepreneurship can be taught to people with average academic abilities - the proof of that is everywhere you look.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

...being an effective teacher is a high calling.

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

Teaching is probably the most difficult of all current jobs for an AI to manage. If you don't believe that, then you have never truly taught.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

I always feel like I can teach.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.

It doesn't matter what you know if you can't teach it.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

Hopefully I'll be a GM one day, or even a coach, teaching the game to the young guys.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

I like playing. I wouldn't be a good coach. I don't have the patience to be a coach.

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

It take a certain type of man to teach, to be far from hood but to understand the streets.

I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.