#teaching

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. ↗

— William Godwin

#error #every #every man #hastening #himself

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#device #educated #male #many #simple

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#conference #disappearing #forest #gift #had

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

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard. ↗

— David Hockney

#almost #always #aware #being #drawing

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is. ↗

— William Glasser

#hardest #job #may #teaching

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#been #considered #i #issues #justice

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing. ↗

— Jenna Bush

#become #both #children #i #i think