Philippe Falardeau Quotes

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

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.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

A good teacher is a determined person.

I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

I'm glad I was a teacher.

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

A teacher is better than two books.

Books are absent teachers.

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?

We learn by teaching.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.

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

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.