I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
I no longer teach meditation, only software design.
Nobody teaches life anything.
Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans.
Every time I teach a class, I discover I don't know something.
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
It take a certain type of man to teach, to be far from hood but to understand the streets.
I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.
Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they're dumb. There needs to be a recognition that you need different ways to teach children who have got reading problems.
Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!
I really don't know what I could teach and don't really plan to teach.
And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.
Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.
Never tire to study. And to teach to others
He’s just another man who wants to teach me something.
And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. . . . When we see people acting in an abusive, arrogant, or demeaning manner toward others, their behavior almost always is a symptom of their lack of self-esteem. They need to put someone else down to feel good about themselves.
If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.