#teaching

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#already #bring #completion #course #during

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. ↗

— Gail Godwin

#good #preparation #pure #teaching #theatre

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#advice #grave #joke #more #sometimes

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#been #catholic #characteristics #combination #combined

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed. ↗

— Al Green

#believe #child #everyone #fail #i

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anything #become #charged #free #friends

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

— Antony Hewish

#been #concern #general #lecturing #major

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. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#global #individuals #living #may #much

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#being #children #deal #eleven #god