Niklaus Wirth Quotes

It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.

I was an elementary school teacher.

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious. It is a difficult assignment. The conditions the teacher arranges must be powerful enough to compete with those under which the student tends to behave in distracting ways.

I'm getting certified to become a teacher because I love it so much.

For every job you require a kind of mindset. To be a teacher one should be knowledgeable. To be a software engineer you should know computer data system analysis, computer language etc. So, my mindset is not aligned with politics.

I've always wanted to play a teacher.

Professors gravitate to the bright, well-prepared students. They are easier to teach, and they appear to profit most from instruction, which may simply mean they are most like the professors. But in the increasing pluralism and decreasing professionalism of colleges and universities in the next decades, the master teacher is likely to be the one who can provide context for many kinds of students.

Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.

I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.

I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.

I will settle down & teach for the rest of my days.

I just think it would be interesting. I already applied to be a substitute teacher.

I will say that my father loved to teach and was a very gifted teacher. He probably would have been an excellent coach and trainer.

I was going to become a teacher.

America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.

Every market we go to, we have a domain-specific language. Every domain-specific language, underneath, has an architecture.

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

I really love teaching; I was actually studying to be a preschool teacher.

Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for.

There's nothing a teacher likes better than ten minute videos. It's not the whole class, but it's not too short, it's enough to wrap a lesson plan around.

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.