Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Teaching, Years

• I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Teaching, School

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• You say you're worried about kids? I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups... Children are not the problem here... We spend the first year of their lives teaching them how to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Teaching, Kids

• I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me I got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. That's when we're going to fight... There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher 'that might not necessarily be true.' That's never happened. There are no scientists picketing out front of churches. There's been this coexistence forever, so to have religious communities knocking down the science door, there's something wrong there.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Fear, Teaching

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Teaching, Inspiration

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Interview with Marina Leight, Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

• My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teaching, Thinking, People

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview with David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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