Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would…

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

— Stephen King

“Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.”

— Stephen King

In third grade, my teacher asked me to read in front of the class. I was so touched because that really was the first…

— Cloris Leachman

“Alongside the wide participation in everyday reading of newspapers and magazines, the era of 'mass reading' of books that characterised the period from the…

— Tony Bennett

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

— David Hockney

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

— Norman MacCaig

I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many…

— Frederick Lenz

There's no one right way to teach poetry in schools.

— Michael Rosen

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

— Nikki Giovanni

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I now see myself leaning new things teaching new things creating object of beauty, loving others & being loved passionately and happiness.

— Anonymous

At Bristol I found it quite difficult to continue trying to balance three things - teaching, research and public engagement, for which television was…

— Alice Roberts

There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people - irritating as…

— Louise Wilson

I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that…

— Steve Wozniak

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

— Itzhak Perlman