My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
Everyday classroom teaching is not what children will remember, but how you made a difference in their lives.
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat.
What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.
It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.
Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.
When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.
They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.
I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.
