Scott Spencer Quotes

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

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

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.

I really look forward to that opportunity to be a student and discover things. That keeps it interesting for me. And I sometimes get easily bored, and there are still some things I wanna talk about instead of repeating something.

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

I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. "DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED," he said. "READING IS A GIFT." "I learned it from you," I told him. "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

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.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

It's lovely to have a part that requires you to learn something that's also interesting.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

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.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.