Derek Hough Quotes

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Those who care, teach. Those who love, teach. Those who can, teach.

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

While we teach, we learn.

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

There is no time to cease learning. Only after you have closed the lid on the coffin does learning cease.

I can give my love of learning to other people.

You learn from everybody.

I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.

I'm just a student. I'm learning all the time, and, like anyone, I'm just looking for words I can use and a hummable melody.

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

That's one thing that's a passion for me: teaching.

I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement.

Teaching the guitar is a constant source of inspiration. I sometimes think I get more out of the lessons than my students.