Paul Bloom Quotes

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

I love to teach - that's my role.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

You know, master classes are essentially extended Q&As. That's how I always approach them. I don't mean to downplay it. It's just that I never fancy myself as someone who is taking a class. 'Master class' insinuates a teacher, and I'm not one.

The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about.

I took my teaching responsibilities very seriously... I taught some great courses: Legal history to feminist theory, courses in American mass culture... I love teaching - I mean really love it.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.