Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

When I was eight years old I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going there was no reason to quit.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time women's careers were essentially nursing secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

If I wasn't an actor I'd be a teacher a history teacher. After all teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor in a way. It takes a great deal to get and hold a class.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

In other words if a teacher only teaches in one way then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability when in fact it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

I thought well of course Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after as we've heard in fairy tales.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession not a picked-on profession.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation explanation showing observation and supervision.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves by relating that we observe by affirming that we examine by showing that we look by writing that we think by pumping that we draw water into the well.

For the longest time you just sound like a broken record but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.