Sam Abell Quotes

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.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

I love to teach - that's my role.

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

If I hadn't been an actor, I would have been a coach, and I would have been a good one. All teaching is is communicating.

I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.

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

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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

I love teaching. I wouldn't take a job that didn't include it.

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

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.

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.

I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.

My father taught only math.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

I studied secondary education.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

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.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Teachers are performers, just like I am.