My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.
Mona Simpson
MotherParentSpeechTeachTalkHer
The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.
Wendy Kopp
LeadershipOpportunityMissionTeach
It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
Jane Goodall
WorkTeachUsBecauseLikeMuch
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
Ludwig von Mises
HistoryCivilizationTeachAnything
I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
Walter Dean Myers
SchoolPeopleYouKnowSayTeach
I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.
James Franco
YearLos AngelesNowTeachStarting
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
Juan Williams
SlaveryDefeatTeachUpStanding
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
LoveHateTeachEnemiesUsTo Love
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann
TeacherColdLearnDesireTeachWho
I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.
Jason Pierre-Paul
TeachStuffSomeLearnedGuys
My older brother bought textbooks and was able to teach himself enough to go to college. When I was 16, he returned and told me to do the same thing.
Tara Westover
BrotherCollegeMeEnoughGoTeach
Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.
Hilary Mantel
GrowHelpYouConsequencesTeachUp
You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
Joseph Chamberlain
YouNewTeachOldDogsCannot
Our lives teach us who we are.
Salman Rushdie
TeachUsWhoOurOur LivesLives
Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.
Gilda Radner
PainYouLookTeachLikeKids
It's not easy to teach a child how to win.
Dikembe Mutombo
ChildWinEasyTeachHow
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
Saint Augustine
I AmMeMeaningKnowTeachIgnorant
Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.
Gordon B. Hinckley
WalkTeachVirtueYourDaughters
I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
Dick Cavett
HomeParentsSorryFeelTeachPoor
'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
Rachel Sklar
MomStreetTeachPossibleAwesome
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Ernest Holmes
GodSufferingBelieveLessonTeach
I believe that no one can teach you how to act, but schools do give you an environment to make mistakes, to learn techniques and to learn professionalism.
Enrico Colantoni
MistakesBelieveLearnYouTeach
You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.
Denis Leary
FunnyYouTeachSomebodyEitherHow
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Naomi Wolf
PatienceObstaclesResilienceTeach
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