Terrance Hayes Quotes

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

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

Having students was so inspiring.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

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.

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

If you want to edify, you have to entertain.

Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.

Every day, teachers across the country excite their students with new opportunities and experiences.

I love teaching; I love little kids.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

When one teaches, two learn.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

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

I wanted to be a teacher.

It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

I can give my love of learning to other people.

True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

I find teaching to be a great way to keep everything in perspective and to help give back. It's also a lot of fun and creatively invigorating.