Back home in Congo, my parents understood everything, and they taught me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Under the headline “Teach the Books, Touch the Heart,” she began with an anecdote about teaching John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But a moment later the golden monkey appeared at her side, and, teaching down, she took his hand and swung him up lightly to her shoulder. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Arts as Curriculum—presence of arts teachers in the school teaching art, music, etc. using the state standard goals for their own specific discipline. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

You’re going to preach and teach like I do, but better. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a lovely name, she said, and she had me teach the whole class how to pronounce it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Each rally was also designed to teach people how to vote. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can only be taught how to go through the motions of creating. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably never taught a single black kid in her life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He continued to teach me more melodies, and once, I juggled while he played. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But in the hardest winters, when the scavenging was poor and the hunting was worse, Nin had taught Sefia to pick locks, pick pockets, and even steal huge hocks of meat without anyone noticing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At the age of ten, Butler children were sent to a private training center in Israel, where they were taught the specialized skills necessary to guard the latest in the Fowl line. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“If your father ever bothered to take you fishing, you wouldn’t have forgotten everything I taught you.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

My father taught me to see Erudite a particular way. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mentor had been the one who taught him to sit still, to listen, and eventually to read. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

"Why can't I dig my own hole, but still teach Zero to read?" he asked. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And you’d teach kids how to think in the same way that kids teach themselves how to think — in the form of the story. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I just had to figure out how to teach her something that came so naturally to me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yourself. Anyone can be taught how to fight. A contender, that you have to do yourself." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Dad remembered this really funny song called “The Funky Chicken” and taught me and Mom how to do the dance. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Phrase-by-phrase teaching is best when the song is longer or has a lot of lyrics or complex melodies. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” said the girl, “but if I may say luck plays no part. We’ve both trained long and have been taught well by our scythes.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mom lets me work there because she and Annie are old friends, and Mom says she thinks having a job will teach me to be responsible. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Besides that,” said Miss Love, “you’re going to teach us how to drive!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Was there time to teach Alexander a simple tune on the piano? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“You are both Black, and your mama taught you to hold your heads up and be proud. You’re Turners, and that comes with a legacy.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sarah had managed to overcome my uncertainty, my ignorance of cooking on an open hearth and teach me quite a bit. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

As he approached the cave, he sang the song which she had taught him: There is a rock here and the cave is dark. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The two of them spend the afternoon at the piano, with Zach teaching Didu a few old hymns that he learned as a kid. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Rain taught me that when people are negative, they’re trying to put duct tape on their own damaged souls. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I would travel to New York to teach my classes and then fly back to Montgomery to run EJI. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If she was to teach you atheism, though, that would be wrongful. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Say hello to Magister Spurge as I taught you,” she prompted, and they chanted in Elven, “We give you fat greetings, sir! Sprayed all over!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He tried to salvage a little conscience by teaching his own boy. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She had made him wash, taught him manners, and told him stories. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

One or two cuts on his fingers had taught him caution. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

When I finished telling, she said, “Women are too busy to be running for president of the United States. What are they teaching at that school? Woman president. Hmp.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Once she would have reveled in showing it off to all her urchin friends, and making them goggle with fear, but Will had taught her the value of silence and discretion. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’m up before my sisters and in the middle of my book, a highlighter and pencil in hand, just like Papi taught me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I say, "Jesus taught that the greatest commandment was to love God with all your heart and all your soul and all your might." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“A lot,” Momma repeats, “of the things you’ll be taught at school are from...a certain perspective.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“In the forty years I taught at St. Vincent de Paul Academy, I never once encountered an eighteen-year-old saint,” Father Mulrooney declared. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My mother is teaching piano lessons again and she and my father are beginning to discuss what they will do next. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was taught from the time I got to Faerie, so he’d have had years on me, and the first thing I learned was where to put my feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe—but that’s not all. I don’t think you can teach what you want to teach.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the work over, and I silently thanked my maa for teaching me that one side must look as well done as the other. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Y’know, my wife told my grandsons that I taught you how to shoot, but ever since they been here, your butt ain’t shot a thing.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After digging all day, he didn't have the strength to try to teach Zero to read and write. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Them gangsters taught him how to play,” another guy agrees. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She did well. I think you’d already taught her more than you realized.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Why waste both our times? You haven't got it in you to be a hero. Believe me, I've taught the best. The very best." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We were being taught our rights as citizens and how to protect those rights when dealing with the police. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here in Kabul, women taught at the university, ran schools, held office in the government. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I pinched my nose closed, which was the way Mom had taught us to get down things that had gone a little bit rotten. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bradley said Peer Communications was her favorite class to teach—or moderate, as she called it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I now know it is more important than almost everything they taught us in college. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll teach you later, but for now I just need someone to watch the signs for me. Come on up to the copilot chair.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

More broadly, she can “teach to the test,” basing her lesson plans on questions from past years’ exams, which isn’t considered cheating but may well violate the spirit of the test. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He said, “And I don’t care what happens, sir, I ain’t gonna breathe a word to no one if you teaches us ’bout that. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

There were three swing sets in the middle of the complex that sat vacant at all times because all of the children had been taught to stay clear of them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The woman was a good fifteen years older than me and clearly disapproved of my teaching methods. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Drawing from sources as diverse as aikido and barroom brawls, the instructors taught us ways to tangle with an attacking or resisting inmate that you weren’t likely to see in, say, a John Wayne movie. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had taught her to knit before she died. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the last few weeks he’d taught her how to build a fire, scale a fish, pitch a tent and read a contour map. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Most of the village girls stop going to school after they turn ten, so the few girls who did go were taught alongside the boys. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When Moses arrived, the first of these devils to accept his teachings, the first he led out, were those we call today the Jews. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

You think I have come walking out of time and earth itself to teach you a lesson in niceness? A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was fond of books and taught his wife her letters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They included preserving the last words of dying people, recording books for blind people to hear, announcing clock time, and teaching spelling. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll teach me. After...whatever it is you do with this one. For an hour every day before supper.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Someday, I said to myself, I will become a teacher, one who does not just teach, but also shows respect to all his Indian students and expects the best of everyone. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now just bear with me, listen to the teachings of the Messenger of Allah, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“David loves rules, so I use those to teach him.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Mr. and Mrs. Lassiter ran a photo business, printing and framing photos and teaching digital photography, their house was filled with printed pictures. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He bowed deeply, which is something Penelope had taught the boys to do as part of their training in good manners. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The boys in Werner’s Kameradschaften are taught parade maneuvers and quizzed on fitness standards and required to run sixty meters in twelve seconds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

During a shooting drill, Luma was teaching the boys how to strike the ball with the tops of their feet when she overheard a Sudanese boy talking to the others. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They had a closet full of whisky and wine; they had cars—but what church did they go to and what would he teach his children when they gathered around him in the evening? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Miig had taught us that on one of my first hunts, and I listen to my Elders. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

July came and brought sweltering heat, and the happy announcement from Dr. Grossman that my father was now well enough to be able to go to the cottage in August and resume teaching in September. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Martin's a great teacher. He taught me, didn't he? His car's still at his parents', but he told me I can use it anytime I want. And so can Didu." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had said he would teach her to feel with her feet, and after some time she became aware, amused by it, that even her toes were supple now. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Introduced was a careful sentence to bring della Porta’s discussion of the soul in line with Christian teaching, and all references to the world soul, the anima mundi, were now carefully turned into quotations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mom’s not sure she wants to go on teaching in public schools. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a certain satisfaction at having learned something new about my peculiarity, and with nothing to teach me but experience. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It would teach her a lesson if he did. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

His parents had always taught him to go by the rules. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Were going to teach you how to do the crab walk. That will be your signature power move.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There will be no disgrace, not if you were taught in Ayortha. What will you sing?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

If I volunteer to teach the Basketball Pole how to swish a foul shot, I will get an automatic A in gym. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The one who’d taught me how to pitch, and me a southpaw. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Here, for instance, is an improvised exchange between two actors in a class that Johnstone was teaching: Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When it returned several years later, she continued to teach even when it was necessary for her students to carry her up the steps to her classroom. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They promised to teach not only how to love poetry, but through poetry, how to better love ourselves. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He was not like other lads, forever running about and bent on sport; he wanted most of all to learn whatever his foster-father could teach him about the art of healing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You taught me how to do that duara thing earlier,” she said calmly. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, there are ways in which to use pedagogies that you already know in order to teach the material, without compromising its integrity or authenticity. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Galileo accepted, even though the increase in salary would only take effect from the following year, and even though it would commit him to burdensome teaching duties. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Though the marsh had a look of lush maternity, Toomer had taught Ben that the marsh was a monster. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the brotherhood was scattered and the leader was dead, the essence of the Pythagorean teachings lived on. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But this was in an age when people had been taught the difference between “Am I looking at my dinner or the dog’s?” and “Am I looking at my dinner or the dogs?” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The chief teaches and explains to the adults the philosophy of the Angkar while all the new people sit and listen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose they’ll teach you to use more vowels in school.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But he had learned enough to land a teaching fellowship at Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Hours later in the cookhouse, Nigel asked me to teach him to read. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Riley taught our class without her usual ebullience, the corners of her mouth turned down. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I taught at a special school in the compound for Americans who came to work on the Inga-Shaba power line. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as soon as possible, she would also teach him. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Their pink and tender skin taught me how to be more careful than I’d ever been. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Thank you. I’ll try to get at it this summer. Maybe some of it will come in handy when I teach Shakespeare again.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

My brother was the one who taught me that trick. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She herself swept her room and made her bed, as the nuns had taught her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I brought my dragon books. So I could teach you.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“They know only what they’re taught, they see only the information that’s made available to them. And who controls all that? The government.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad you know that word, and, yes, he was very generous. That’s one of the things all Lakota people were taught to be—generous.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Call’s cuss words were taught to him by his sainted grandmother and tended to be as quaint as the clothes she made for him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Next time, let it be an opportunity to teach them about how God created us all equal.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Lelia taught him not to bite through it: a good lesson in restraint. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instinct, deeper than memory, taught him to recognize challenge and threat. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Will you teach me how to sew Gulmina a new dress?” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I mentally chant a saying my grandfather taught me the day he met me, when I was six. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I know that. You can teach me nothing,” the boy said. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The trees will teach you. The trees remember.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As we passed the shipyard where the loftsmen raised the shape of a hull according to the measurements of a model, he taught me the secret of numerical proportions and scale. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I have a basic five-point code to reading people’s faces, which Mr Shepherd has taught me from cartoon pictures: 1: Lips up, loads of teeth showing = very amused, happy. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed her to point out when I was wrong and teach me new things, and I was pretty sure that she needed me too. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enid Simdars embraced the strictures of Christian Science, a faith that taught that the material world and all the evil that attended it were illusory, that the only reality was spiritual. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I toss up a pitch and load my weight on my back leg the way Lolo taught me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Schoolteachers were told to encourage independent and critical-thinking skills in every subject and to teach students to think for themselves. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our gym teacher, Ms. Connors, is teaching us to play tennis. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, but first those girls at school know that you have something that they want, then they bring you into their group just so you can teach them dance steps or whatever.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Three years living under the Khmer Rouge regime has taught us that some things are better left unsaid. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up proper, the way I had been taught—chin up, eyes down-took Ruth by the hand, and walked over to the men. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he loved to watch ice skaters, for example, and surfers on TV, and that he could skip stones — one of his students had taught him how on a field trip. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of those girlfriends tried to teach me once, but I think she gave up in the end. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was a big woman, and Ophie’s impression of her had always been of glamour, even as she taught the children about Jesus in Sunday school. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The others seem genuinely interested in what Mama’s teaching them. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

On the way home, me and Howard taught Gus and Bertha some of our Bible school songs, and then the best thing happened. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. Staphopoulos had taught her how to save a drowning person, how to get the water out of someone’s lungs, and she did everything he had taught her to do. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you just teach a crab to play the piano?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A baker, cooper, or rope maker usually started his career as an apprentice, which meant that the master who taught him had to be paid. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

And these past seven months had taught Nate something else: that nothing was impossible. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

So he taught his six children, myself the youngest by ten years, with the patience he brought to all things. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had tried to teach her to drive, but she was too timid; he, too impatient. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it possible, Mademoiselle, that you did not recognize in the Countess Andrenyi Mrs. Armstrong’s young sister whom you taught in New York?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am wearing my moccasins, and so I walk lightly through the snow, quiet as Kainta taught me to be. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Let’s make it together. I’ll teach you how to modify a pattern.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

All these years teaching and she still doesn’t know that thinking is the trouble with groups. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I typed “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” like Mom taught me, to check that they hadn’t messed up the keys, and then a little bit of !&$?! for emphasis. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

After graduating with a degree in mathematics, Big Dub moved North, where he spent the next few years teaching at small colored schools in Virginia and Maryland. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Fadi,” said Noor, her voice an octave lower, “I know you’re an excellent photographer. You know all the tricks Dad taught you, but don’t be too disappointed if you don’t win.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Poor boy, he’s never known how it feels to make someone else happy, and I’m afraid I can’t teach him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Matthias went swiftly, still remembering to bob and weave as Basil had taught him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He teaches in the one classroom with a platform so that he can stand above us and threaten us with his ash plant and peel his apple for all to see. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, through this experience Wang Lung learned what the young men had not taught him, that he belonged to his own kind, who have black hair and black eyes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The man taught both the Quran and the Bible, and his students included Elijah Poole. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The recent transfer of Beatrice and Caleb Prior, the children of Andrew Prior, calls into question the soundness of Abnegations values and teachings.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The millions of Africans taken to work in sugar were not taught to read and write. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I went to work at my teaching job, then hopped on a train to Manhattan to work out at the foundation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“My only true love, to tell you the truth, Emma. She was a schoolteacher here in town. She probably taught your gram, actually.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She barely remembers how to write her own name, something her grandmother had once taught her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Like you. I can tell by how you look at the books. And how you teach them things.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sally, who taught you to paint your eyes like Cleopatra? The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one that says he’s going to teach me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Evildoers. Don’t they teach you nothing at that school?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She recalls that in his early years of teaching, he came home from school one day “down in the dumps.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Dutch are the only significant exception: in the United Provinces the universities were teaching Cartesian philosophy by the late seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And then I remember a theory that I actually taught Libby: “Play the opposite.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There she had a white pastor who taught her English. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Couldn’t help thinking of the day I taught you to throw. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I taught creative writing in the famous Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa for a couple of years after that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am better off doing as Abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I asked my mother to teach me about makeup. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were to be taught some new evolutions. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught me to play soccer with his friends, using makeshift balls made from wadded-up plastic bags and rubber bands. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Still, despite their circumstances, Morrie was taught to love and to care. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s been teaching me how to keep others from prying into my head.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If Frankie had taught him anything, it was to feign confidence, even if you didn’t feel it. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I sit at my typewriter, stunned that my mother could cast off someone who’d done her the biggest favor of her life, raise her children, teach me kindness and self-respect. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“He’d teach her to speak in tongues. Besides, he doesn’t have time—and neither does Sister Gladys, and neither do I, so don’t ask.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is the way people are taught to make decisions, but in real life it is much too slow. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But I’m a Beta; I worked in the Fertilizing Room; nobody ever taught me to do anything like that. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A school where they ‘taught’ us to make handbags. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Another source of income for mathematicians in Galileo’s day was teaching the geometrical principles of perspective representation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He had already learned the lesson he would teach me that day: that his body was in constant jeopardy. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flores is always teaching about one kind of thing while I’m thinking about another. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He had interviewed well at Cambridge and in two weeks he was leaving for France where he was to teach English at a religious school. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The old man never taught his son how to fish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though teaching offered prestige, the compensation was modest. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Who better to teach the southern blacks how to be good workers than men of their own race? A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even though he’s not going to work anymore, he’s still in his teaching uniform: navy V-neck sweater and jeans. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

"To how many have you taught this system of yours?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

How can we ever hope to wrest the answers to those questions from Africa’s preliterate past, lacking the written evidence that teaches us about the spread of the Roman Empire? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Woolf took them under his wing, letting them copilot his roadster and teaching them the fine arts of horsemanship. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so happy for you, Melody! You really needed this! And, yes, we’re gonna have to find a day so you can teach me some fashion sense!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that I hated hem, Denna’s men taught me a lesson that I might never lave learned otherwise. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bull saw Ben set up a trick that Bull had taught his son. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He evaluated my game this way: I had potential to become a decent player provided I was prepared to work hard to unlearn the numerous bad habits I had taught myself. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have been taught by misery,” he said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school created the very first teaching hospital in the world, a place where the sick were treated and young doctors learned their craft, as well as a fine ob- servatory to track the heavens. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Compassion, the piece teaches, has a healing and liberating power. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When we are not walking, I teach the little ones things of my childhood so far in the past. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pythagoras taught that God is a number; Xenophanes that it is a sphere, passionless and consubstantial with all things; Parmenides that it is but the confluence of earth and fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“I could teach you how to do that,” she said. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The students were taught how to identify Jews by learning the physical traits that the Nazis claimed characterized “inferior” people. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Margaret taught George everything he knew about keeping cultures sterile, and she did the same with every technician, grad student, and scientist who came to work or study in the lab. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the worldly-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

I taught myself how to convert fractions into decimal points by going online. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I bristled, but I’m not sure if it was because of the way he said your Yellow or the implication that I wasn’t capable of mastering the things he was trying to teach me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The sponsors will help us find a place to live and schools to teach us English, and they will help us adapt to life in America. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that Hob had worked on Cully for fourteen hours a day to teach him his trade, and that his work had been like Jacob’s struggle with the angel. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there’s anything her past efforts have taught her, it’s that real change requires prolonged pressure and inspired action. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Spider Kelly taught all his young gentlemen to box like featherweights, no matter whether they weighed one hundred and five or two hundred and five pounds. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes, sir. She is my teacher. She taught me to read.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Skilled musicians know this, and good speakers,” says Joseph Cappella, who teaches at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I returned from the kitchen and poured her beer, as she had taught Bailey and me beer should be poured, she patted the bed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the doctors and dentists and teach- ers and bankers and landowners. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Writing Mistress was the only one who taught anything worth knowing,” I concluded, “although it is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Poor little thing! It was hard upon her when she tried so heartily to please me. She was wrong, of course, but then she was young. I must be patient and teach her.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m teaching a unit on journalism,” said Mr. Larson, “and some of the kids in the class have started a newspaper—sort of as a project. It’s good writing, don’t you think?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

When we’d finished and I was ready to go, she said, “My sister Caroline teaches dance every Wednesday in the back of Papa Jay’s. There are lots of girls your age. You could join.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Will Bates, who a month before had been an unheard-of math teacher, was suspended from his job with pay, reportedly because of concerns over his safety if he continued to teach at Carter. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will no longer study Yoga-Veda, Atharva-Veda, or asceticism, or any other teachings. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so she began to teach him mathematics—she called it “maths” and he called it “math” and so they agreed not to shorten the word. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I decided a few hours ago how I wanted to handle this—I want to teach Caleb a lesson. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A well- known artist was coming from Little Rock to teach art to them. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the war’s end, however, he turned down Ernest’s offer to continue as the lab manager in order to resume the classroom teaching of Hegel and Marx. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you teach your girls to be demure?” she ventured. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My teacher taught me a lot. I can sing in different languages, and I know about rivers and butterflies and caterpillars..." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“No, no—it’s a sort of charm thing that my mother taught me. You know, like ‘Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope I shall soon be able to teach you, Joe - and then we shall be so glad. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Other children—three, four, five and six years old—were being taught the same lessons by their parents. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did she teach you not to drop your drawers?” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt no need to give the greeting Big Ma had taught my sisters and me to give all grown folk, especially to white folk. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The Golly Brown Giant is teaching a handful of mostly boys how to knit—if this high school basketball superstar can knit, knitting is the coolest thing ever, right? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

And besides, an education wasn’t something a Dinka girl had been taught to value. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My faith taught me to have faith in God. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ross was going to teach things like poetry and literature, and he was always making jokes that weren’t very funny unless you knew what he was talking about. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one at Cambridge taught the benefits of good marching order. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Empire raids, jails, and kills for such “crimes,” but teaching a six-year-old her letters isn't evil—not in the minds of my people, the Scholar people. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I could take any child off the street and teach them as much. Incomparable is a matter of your personal opinion, and easily disproved.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I think they’re probably confused about a lot of stuff. This is my second year of teaching.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the daytime, he continued to teach, and to grace meetings with his most authoritative manner, and to hold office hours. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom used to sit us around the table, teaching history. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught me some things that I was to employ in later years when hard times would force me to have my own burglary ring. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My time at Miss Preston’s has taught me a few things. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Hound was right, she thought, I am only a httle bird, repeating the words they taught me. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The final step is to have the song down cold before attempting to teach it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He taught me that once I got into a fight I should “grab for the balls right away.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, whatever. Let’s say she got angry. Was it when she got angry she started to say this other stuff? About how we weren’t taught enough about donations and the rest of it?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than their guidance, it was their unconditional love that taught me the true meaning of equality. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack’s teaching duties at the law school had wrapped up for the semester, and I’d put in for time off at my job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She worked with me, helping to teach me some words. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Japanese soldiers had been taught that there was only one thing to do when things were hopeless, when they were surrounded, or when their leaders were killed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is much to teach you,” the captain says, strolling the copperized deck, his hands clasped behind his back. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

None of us, after all, can be taught how to create. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want you to teach me to fence.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She taught me to make challah, but Bubbe says the kitchen in her New York apartment is too cramped for showing me more complicated recipes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They’re supposed to teach him how to walk and feed himself and get dressed and all. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

This was the woman who’d taught my mother everything there was to know about getting rid of roaches in a nice way. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raising them in America, Lola says, she needed to teach them such things. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She thought that sort of job would suit her better than teaching. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Friends within warned me that there was a plot afoot to teach me a lesson for not showing up at the gang’s fights. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smith taught him that he could trust his trainer and rider, and this became the foundation for the trials the three would share over the next five years. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And do you usually put your lunch on the front of your shirt, Nigel? Is that what this famous doctor father of yours has taught you to do?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Talent was great, but time had taught him that talent was also extremely rare. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

If Luma’s way of teaching these lessons to her players seemed harsh, she made no apologies. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, she taught them to make angels by lying on their backs and waving their arms and legs. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Syrio was teaching her to see with her ears and her nose and her skin, she told him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He taught English for a year, then was asked to lead the guidance office. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Public schools, she had learned from other Catholic parents, were where juvenile delinquents went and where teachers taught those new crazy ideas about how we all came from monkeys. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I got to teach you that I’m a white man. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a professional, she could teach a class. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was taught to fear what my brother will do with it if I do not do as I am told. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught that the laws of Nature could be deduced by pure thought. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And nasturtium seeds for her garden, and a book of songs to teach us. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then she stalked around in the weeds, teaching herself to jump at butterflies. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They discovered that by making small but critical adjustments in how they presented ideas to preschoolers, they could overcome television’s weakness as a teaching tool and make what they had to say memorable. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, we taught the American kids in church to sing with us as well. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Dressed in her tan gabardine teaching suit with black blouse, she was off to school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew a thing which the other was still too green to know— that he had taught the finest knight in Europe. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught her to say thank you in Chinese. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1944, he was captured by the Gestapo, but he escaped prison, thanks to his metalworking experience, which taught him how to make keys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The chairman of Truman’s English department recognized a passion and potential in Volpe and hired him in November of 1969, a few months after the school year started, to teach English. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“This is for you, Coraline. For your own good. Because I love you. To teach you manners. Manners makyth man, after all.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The witch said to him, “You will not ever tell that word to the other children, if I teach it to you.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He could teach Ms. Warner a thing or two. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the two years he spent in elementary school he was not taught to read and write. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I taught her that particular trick. I do not think she understood the nuances of it, but it appears she performed fine regardless. Do you feel unsteady at all?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You need to become a better marble player before the other fellas will accept you. I’m gonna teach you some tricks.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was told to measure pills with the younger children, and his quota was twice theirs, “to teach him the value of labor.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a boy he taught himself to read parts of the Bible in Hebrew, and before we came to Africa he made us all sit down and study French, for the furtherance of our mission. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were taught not to think of them as human beings,” he said. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“That is only because I have been taught to be cautious when I don’t know all the information, and you have been taught that risks can produce great rewards.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

George had been reading websites about transitioning since Scott had taught her how to clear the web browser history on Mom’s computer. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Before apartheid, any black South African who received a formal education was likely taught by European missionaries, foreign enthusiasts eager to Christianize and Westernize the natives. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her uncle helped her think of all these things without crying, and taught her to relax and not resist the pain so that it would pass through her without stopping. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hameed ignores the chatter and goes on teaching without getting frazzled. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

One young man had taught me how to put a sticker on the ceiling. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d also inherited some money, so she could give up teaching and buy all the art supplies she wanted. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had taught him his name, they had, they had, but it had been so' long that he’d forgotten. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On September 1, 1949, Stalin taught America a hard lesson about the cost of lagging behind in the spy wars. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was an old speller—probably the one Weylin’s first wife had been taught from. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Their children are taught the history of the Empire with a kind of disclaimer hanging over the whole thing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Grandma studied up on the topic, and we talked for hours while she taught me how to do the quilting for Mother’s birthday present. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said I had to pray for that evil white man, pray every day for twenty-one days, asking God to forgive him and teach him right. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was funning with me again, but she was trying to teach me a lesson too. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Euwe, a doctor of philosophy in mathematics who had taught at the Amsterdam Lyceum, was a former World Champion, having defeated his predecessor in 1935 with a studied and logical approach to the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but it’s not the same. We have our work to keep busy. Hiroshi likes being a father. He likes to teach. Some people need to be heard. To be appreciated.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had taught Luna, when she was a little girl with scabby knees and matted hair, how a caterpillar lives, growing big and fat and sweet-tempered, until it forms a chrysalis. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I was leading a double life, trying to be an American kid at school but coming home to teach my parents English and help them pay the bills. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah? Maybe you should ask your brother to teach you how to fight.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Kaz had done his best to teach her, but she didn’t quite have his way with breaking and entering, and it took her a few tries to finesse the lock. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“There are better ways to teach a child compassion.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen a picture of her since she’d been in high school and now she was twenty-one and taught music and had lots of beaus. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was to be taught to read and write, not only in English but in Latin, and not only in Latin but also in a curious abbreviated language of Dr. Bright's own devising. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally and most important, I told those gathered in the church that Walter had taught me that mercy is just when it is rooted in hopefulness and freely given. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As Mr. Muhammad had taught me, I would start by reading over the casket of the departed brother or sister a prayer to Allah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father had thought to teach me this after he had been in a sailing accident and stranded on a life raft for two days. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Chou taught me to use leaves, but at night, when I cannot see, I am afraid there might be bugs on them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all the training, with everything I’ve been taught about self defense and the wielding of weapons, something inside me blows a critical fuse. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of a pitch Charlie had tried and tried to teach me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As far as he was concerned, mine was the slowest, most no-tips time of day, and sometimes he’d stick around most of that hour teaching me things, for he didn’t want to see me fired. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why hadn’t Mom taught Emma, Chess, and Finn everything they needed to know about the alternate world from the very beginning? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to go to Alabama State College, where they taught you how to teach school but didn’t teach you how to get your freedom. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

"What were you teaching Ricky how to knit for?" she asked as soon as we walked in. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Pacioli is teaching from Euclid, and a copy of one of his own books on mathematics is in the right foreground. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She passes by Poppet and Widget, where Poppet is teaching the marmalade kittens to climb onto her shoulders and Widget is pulling book after book from the library’s well-stocked shelves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Charlie led Joe among the stumps and downed trees, teaching him how to understand what lay beneath the bark of the fallen logs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He really likes teaching kids English and thinks maybe he can take over the drama department, too, next year. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Papá and Mamá taught us to always have both hands on the table. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Boys. I want to open a school for little lads—a good, happy, homelike school, with me to take care of them and Fritz to teach them.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, the little gray-furred beasts would scurry tormentingly through the branches that hung outside the nursery windows, which threw all Penelope’s attempts to teach odd and even numbers into chaos. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He gave me my first pony and taught me how to ride him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t wait to meet her, and I wonder what it will be like to have someone older than Sumaiya to teach. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Vincent has always been an autodidact, and within a few weeks, he finds a way to teach himself. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Just that Ben is right. It’s not your job to help her every second. It’s your job to teach her to help herself.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

While most of the classes we took were taught by soldiers and sometimes ex-soldiers who were tech reps, in this case a civilian walked into the room. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“If you’re interested in wearing makeup, I can teach you how to apply it properly,” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The second was that the teaching was better. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Van glanced out the window, into the seminary, a Mormon teaching center where students are allowed to spend a period each school day learning the gospel and earning credits toward seminary graduation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Or don't they teach you biology at schools like yours?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Visitors from the Shang Dynasty are said to have crossed the Pacific to teach the ancient Olmec how to write, build monuments, and worship a feline god. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After she showed me what being a good wife had taught her—her words, not mine—I fell asleep under the watchful eyes of a dozen or so porcelain dolls. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Although she had never been taught this, Frightful was following ancient peregrine instincts. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I will teach you to see that ship. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

As we have seen, the ‘corpuscularian philosophy’, as Boyle called it, was based on the teachings of Epicurus and Lucretius, opponents of all religion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I believed her because the day my father taught her how to play chess, she won her first game. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But Daddy had taught me to always tell the truth. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A Dinka child is also taught to fight for family, village, tribe, and country. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our history teacher, Mr. Sheridan, was trying to teach us something about the Civil War. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He said the njuzu taught him everything he knew about water. I wish they would do something for me.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Habib had coaxed, “In your new school you could teach the kids all about the great books you love so much.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Don’t act so innocent, child! Have I not taught you to look closely about you?” he asked, his voice sharp. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to teach you the latest steps.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore had at least taught Harry something about certain kinds of magic, of the incalculable power of certain acts. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Does he teach those things as well, the way you teach me?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, remember that stuff? People use it to pay for groceries, clothes. It takes money to run a business, Elizabeth. My mother can’t afford to lose this teaching job.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

All this drama and I didn’t even have my teaching credentials yet. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I guess I could teach Luster to drive it, then they could chase her all day long if they wanted to, and I could stay home and play with Ben. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most academics can effortlessly dispense this kind of sludge, and many students, like Zonker Harris in this Doonesbury cartoon, acquire the skill without having to be taught. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

‘Hold your tongue, boy. I thought misfortune had taught you patience.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like a child. You didn’t know what things to do with yourself. I can teach you now. You seem to be a man.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were taught history the way it’s taught in America. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Our teachers aren’t used to teaching children as old as you. Or as good at writing and reading as you are. There are larger schools, where you would have greater opportunities. Better facilities.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“We were safe. Just like you taught us to be.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m just trying to give them a fighting chance. Our mama taught me how to protect this family. Let me teach them. Rootwork is part of who we are.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Apparently, he thinks it’s important to teach students “dedication to long-term projects,” and this assignment is his grand solution. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I did nothing he taught me—I neither concealed myself nor blended in with others to avoid notice. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I went into a little of Mr. Muhammad’s teaching with Archie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ducking and weaving as Basil had taught him, Matthias waved the medal and yelled at the top of his voice, “Truce! Basil Stag Hare sent me here. I claim a truce!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Living in the suburbs had taught her that everything costs. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hitler Youth were taught that the Aryan race was superior to all other races. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She taught me lots more about bees than just how to keep them. She used to tell me one tall bee tale after another.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and teach their young in rookeries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lee Lee’s poems are so good, she could probably teach the class,” I tell Sam. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She knocked off a master’s degree in mathematics from Atlanta University, and then taught school in Arkansas, Georgia, and Tennessee before coming to Langley in 1943, where she was hired as a P-l mathematician. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Even though I know he’ll never be able to teach me how to make a chest. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

June did, too, but it was hard to get a job, since there weren’t that many places for Negroes to teach. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the baby died it was too late to withdraw from his teaching duties. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“And besides,” added Sheriff Elwell, “teaching those people is like teaching dogs to walk on their hind legs. All they know is living off others.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Don’t teach him to be a fool,” my father said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six months later she found out about the school board’s new plan for letting executives teach in the schools. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The French school is not bad, but I prefer Sidcot Hall. They teach the complete British curriculum,” said another woman, whose name Obinze had forgotten. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer continued to teach physics, but he felt restless, like he should be doing something to help stop Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the school taught rudimentary literacy and numeracy, drilled children in camp rules, and constantly reminded them of their iniquitous blood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Although Ms. G wants to teach us next year, as juniors, the other English teachers don’t want to let her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her education had taught her how to be an enlightened mother and wife, able to contribute to the civilization—or in her case, the civilizing—of her community. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When in doubt he relied on the unwritten rule his superiors had taught him: “If he’s dead and Vietnamese, he’s VC.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The first hint of it was Mr. Morton going around the schools teaching Christmas carols, but the first sure sign was the store windows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that if my father hadn't died, he would have taught me all about insects, which was his specialty at the university. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had tossed Meggie up in the air, he had carried her around the house on his shoulders, he had taught her how to make a bookmark of a blackbird’s feathers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He sprinted to the campus of the University of California, where he taught, and ran from lab to lab with the news, soon bumping into one of his fellow professors, Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This touched Celia, and she wrote a special note to Irinita encouraging her to keep up her Spanish and promising to teach her how to swim. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she finished her pilot’s certification in 1933, she became an instructor herself—mostly teaching young men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But Baba wouldn’t teach him those skills, and it was all because of Neel’s success in school. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

By teaching us how to read, they had taught us how to get away. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't have anything to give you, either, except words, Kabir. So remember all I taught you. Go on. Go ahead. Don't look back." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It was Bullet’s idea to start a youth council, to start passing on the teachings right away, while they were still relearning themselves. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

During the last two weeks we were taught such things as how to use and repair our signal equipment. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he can't teach himself any more than he already has. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There is no better way to teach than to provide some firsthand experience and a little fun. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He wants me to teach you to ride.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do whatever you want, but use protection, is what they teach.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to teach me how to use the splendor?” she asked. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I had to ask him if he could really teach me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He even starts to teach me how to stall the ball on my shoulder blades and on my forehead, too, like a sea lion doing tricks at the aquarium. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But for my twin who now teaches school and murders tree trunks I have heard various words applied by our neighbors, none with much fondness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandmother had taught Doreen to cook when she was young, telling her only daughter that men didn’t care about school, only a woman who could cook, clean, and keep her mouth shut. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I began to think that I could teach young girls like me that they too could “be somebody.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“She’s focusing more on teaching agriculture than raising livestock these days,” he says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Mac, who had studied in the German Democratic Republic, taught a course in Marxism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is certainly true to say that premodern agriculturists tended to be theists, but it does not teach us much about the particulars. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was always taught not to tell anyone about anything that happens our household, but tonight I guess you could say that I spilled the beans. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She taught us all the different nations of Africa and the periods of African history. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Probably don’t give no credit to who taught you, neither. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She said she didn’t have time to teach us like a regular English teacher—we were too far behind. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I come back next year, in high summer also, to teach the boy again.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He also taught me an important lesson about leadership: it always comes with having to make tough decisions. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, we taught him a lesson,” the Texan said, his voice fading in and out with the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Winnie was up and about, I undertook the task of teaching the new mother of the household how to drive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I grew up on a farm,’ he said, ‘but I never knew you could teach a pig tricks. Help yourself to more bread?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did the Dauntless teach you that it’s all right to invade another person’s privacy, or did you teach yourself?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He told me fencing was a mind game, so instead of focusing on the physical, he taught me to think tactically. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then, leaning heavily on her staff, Xan made her way to the workshop to prepare to teach Luna. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then I was offered a job to teach at King Middle, and I couldn’t turn that down.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“And I thought maybe you’d want to be bored with me. Plus, it’s Friday. They never teach you anything on Friday.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This was only to keep Laila a step or two ahead of her class, not because he disapproved of the work assigned by the school—the propaganda teaching notwithstanding. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Merritt was convinced that the Mosses had been abusive, but the foster care supervisor said the Mosses were model foster parents who even taught the training classes for other foster parents. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She added that she was studying education and planned to return to Truman to teach. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We’d jump off the roof of the depot, using an army-surplus blanket as our parachute and letting our legs buckle under us when we hit the ground, like Dad had taught us real parachutists do. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

All in all, Jinny felt like she was doing a pretty good job with Ess, but no matter how she tried, she couldn’t seem to teach the girl to swim. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Clear-thinking and self- taught, Kotane was the son of peasant farmers in the Transvaal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gold was taught never to use his real name when doing secret work, never to share his address. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They used the live animation of Saturday morning cartoons to teach lessons about learning the alphabet. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He tells me your mother taught you. But your mother was a commoner, a peasant, correct?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Because it’s easier to teach a dozen men than one man. How about it, Lupe? You think you can persuade them?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see how working in a mine can teach anything beyond how to use a pickax.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The way they taught us to think of the enemy in our training. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A devout Christian, he tried his best to follow God’s teachings all his life. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. “ The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could teach you girls how to spit like a master,” he said. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw her standing by her house and watching him teach, he would raise his voice and pronounce his words more carefully. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stop brushing and multiply twenty-four times six in my head using the process Samantha taught me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Was all this done to teach us kids a lesson? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Students didn’t let up for one minute, chirping on about my folks, my mother’s teaching, and things I considered personal and sacred. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they could never have taught him Arabic. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A good thing Hab taught me that boys don’t blubber,” he muttered. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The students were asked to read over and over a single phonetic paragraph designed to teach them how to soften their t’s and to roll their r s. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

We passed under one of the watch- towers along the river, and someone noticed a familiar face—a recruit from the class ahead of ours, the guy who had taught us to short-sheet our beds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bitter reminder that everything King had taught him had been wiped out by his time in the military. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Instead his eyes just followed as Boobie danced and weaved and did all those things on the beautifully manicured, well- watered fields that L.V. had patiently taught him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At seventeen she took county board examinations, which covered all the arts and sciences, and at eighteen she was teaching school at Peach Tree. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gram taught me to believe in magic, not ghosts. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

His words reminded me of an interesting nature fact Ms. Malone had taught us last year in fourth grade. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the few hours of rest we teach them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was teaching Theresa and half the time I didn’t understand what they were saying. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath to release negative energy, like Madrina taught me to do. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She taught English composition as if everyone cared about it, which I found appealing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She intended to quit her teaching job and devote herself to her art. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

All I need is someone to teach me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He had just been promised a teaching assistantship for the spring semester, and he had been in the mood for a celebration. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of teaching us about the election, Mr. Mwila expected us to teach ourselves. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He encouraged me and taught me how to approach people around our city and state and ask for their help. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And they really deserved a couple of days up north without any worries, because they worked really hard, Dad with all his inventions and Mom teaching math. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Papa gone, I knew I had to teach Jumper a good lesson. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you didn’t have a mother around, then who taught you how to dress like you do? And where on earth did you learn about gospel and soul music? Aren’t Portuguese people Catholic or something?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Harper taught us tricks to remember which letters go with which lines and spaces. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mack says he is anxious to teach Ruby some tricks. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I was always taught that people don’t give without receiving. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The flsherfolk liked to say a mermaid had taught him to breathe water in return for his seed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The others had forgotten the words, so she taught them again. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The global achievement gap: Why even our best schools don’t teach the new survival skills our children need—and what we can do about it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Biddy already teaching me lots. Mostly how to be nice to folks that never hurt me.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I guess your mama didn’t forget everything I taught her.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The most ruthless of the murder addicts was Av’s sister Lois, then just back from teaching for a year in Karachi, and a firm proponent of the hypocrisy of Indian vegetable eaters. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I make my bed with the tight corners like my father taught me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It had long been a leader in education, establishing one of the first kindergartens and introducing practice teaching to further the studies of its students. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about starting to teach Lily to ride so that she could speed off proudly after her Ceremony of Nine, which would be coming soon. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

If he could teach him to track on a leash, he could find me whenever he wanted to. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He taught me how to bait the horses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They are forgetting the dynamics Ms. Parker taught us in rehearsal. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

It breaks all the rules Du Barry taught us. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Driving lessons, and Ray Veech wants two dollars to teach me.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had numbers for all of the different tactical move he had taught us, so when we were at a match he could shout a number to us and we’d know what to do. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Aside from Ma and me, there were only a few other people at the shower: four women from the junior high school where we taught and Mrs. Ruiz. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Why burn the only things that taught one to believe in the future, to fight for one’s right to live in freedom and dignity? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve strayed off onto some of the incidents and situations which have taught me to respect the danger in the ghettoes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if I did take on a student—which I haven’t done in years, mind you—I certainly wouldn’t waste my time teaching someone who doesn’t want that scholarship...or have you changed your mind?” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

And in the gym, I’d press Aimee to teach me more of the tricky, high-start-value combinations that might one day land me on the same podium as the top elite girls in my sport. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Not only did we have advanced academic classes, we were also taught time-management skills, essay writing, and public speaking. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She hands me a guitar and teaches me a few chords. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Beto swallowed, lifted the shotgun again, and stared down the barrel at Wash. Wash who had taught him to fish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even when his grandmother died—he got the news in the middle of a lecture and kept right on teaching. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I still wanted to learn English, though, so I asked Celia if she would come over to teach me a few things. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But I’d rather give out my second chances from the place that taught me how to give them—Hope Springs. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He used the Japanese word, which, naturally, Lynn had already taught me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

This site allows you to track any changes regarding teaching and learning in the arts. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And I was just the person to teach her. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which job did he want, sir? What subject did he want to teach?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

"I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me. He's a commander in the Navy. When he gets leave hell come and rescue us. What's your father?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She taught me to love in new ways. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Let’s take a simple playground rhyme as our material to teach West African musical and cultural values. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

"Just something about the air. And I've seen lots of rings around the moon too. Something my grandfather taught me to do back home." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

While the other gods feasted, Odin pondered on what Thought and Memory taught him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who aren’t taught right from wrong are oblivious to what is and what is not appropriate behavior. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Among the Sufis there is a teaching that the universe has never been created and consequently cannot be destroyed. I have spent the afternoon,” Luke announced gravely, “browsing in our little library.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Telling one coin from another by touch alone was one of the first things the waif had taught her, after they took away her eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But every year since she had first begun to teach at Camillo Junior High, Mrs. Baker had taken her class camping in June. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

With Vera, I’m trying to find ways to teach her how to grow her own self-esteem. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But aboard Old Nero, Roger quickly found that his freewheeling rowing style was more hindrance than help when it came to mastering the racing stroke that Tom Bolles and Al Ulbrickson taught in the 1930s. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

James taught Sammy how to put out a fire properly; how to cover it with dirt and then stamp on it and wait, to be sure no telltale smoke rose from the ashes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we weren’t taught about her or any other Latin American poets, for that matter. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She had been alone with him many times at the swimming hole where he taught her one summer how to tread water and do the breaststroke. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know what you’re doing. You never even taught kids before. You flunk my sister, you won’t teach nowhere else. I know people. Big-time people,” she says, walking out of there. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“What is this? What are you doing? b the finest knight in Europe to throw away everything I have taught him for the sake of a lady’s beautiful eyes? And a married lady too!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Garner helped in her own way, teaching her slaves their letters so they could receive the word of God with their own eyes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But Gottman, it turns out, can teach us a great deal about a critical part of rapid cognition known as thin-slicing. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

You must be very kind and respectful to those who are old, Charles, I am sure they teach you that at school.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I was about to make a joke about how good that was, because someone needed to teach him some manners, but then I saw the look on his face. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But a few nights later, he again broke into song and offered to teach Shin the lyrics. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He taught Ellsberg to constantly scan the barbed wire fences along the road, looking for a shiny edge that hadn’t had time to rust, the telltale sign of a recent slice. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it’s what the Church has taught for thousands of years. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

You’re the one who taught me how to put on lipstick. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Rufus glanced at the door, then said low-voiced, “Neither do I. Her boy Jim was my friend. He taught me how to ride when I was little. But Daddy sold him anyway.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then, he got mad and started hitting me, and I just did the things my brother taught me to do. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

None of the teachers were interested in teaching anything, and after a while it felt oddly like a snow day, an in-school snow day on the warmest, clearest, most beautiful day of the year. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

By the time she was three, Matilda had taught herself to read by studying newspapers and magazines that lay around the house. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

There he chatted with a young teacher named Isabel Hussey who had just been hired to teach at the school in the fall. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Because my mama taught me never to cuss.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

To look me over and tell me he’s seen a lot worse injuries among the soldiers when they teach choke holds in training. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He kept back his resentment and impatience, and tried to be obedient, so that Ogion would consent at last to teach him something. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I, however, am a different story. I have not taught in years. I will not. Probably not ever again. So...” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“The time and effort you’ve put into teaching her and getting her ready for this test, and ...” She breaks off, blinking hard. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The only subjects that came easily were those taught by Writing Mistress: composition and ciphering. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Past experience taught them that blacks were last hired, first fired, especially true for black women. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t take Brigid on to teach, but how could she begrudge her a chance to start? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He taught surveying, navigation, cartography and military engineering. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She had taught me to read in order to help cure my whooping cough and asthma. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I am old and my voice is hoarse, but when I have taught you the tune, you can sing it better for yourselves. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He probably employed an apprentice and taught him an honest trade, unlike Dr. Lange, who had lured me with lies. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The K spoke politely, like he had a Big Ma of his own who had taught him to say “yes, sir” and “no, ma’am.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Our mothers both taught school and were good friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

All morning Buddy had been teaching me how to ski. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

So he began to teach me the Arabic alphabet when I was just a tiny pikin, barely able to toddle about. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believe that he understands a lot of what is being taught, but he has no interest in doing the work that comes with the assignments. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Dad had taught us how to count the seconds between the lightning bolt and thunder—one thousand, two thousand, three thousand—to figure out how many miles away a storm was. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I just wish she would teach us the language and not be so mean. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I taught them to be clean and truthful and not to take charity. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her Arabic teacher on the kindergarten floor hit a short stick on the back of a chair for rhythm, teaching the little ones another useless sentence. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Another thing they taught was that nobody was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in that day’s chemistry class, their teacher had taught them how to make fake snow with baking soda and water, so most of the tables were covered with tiny snowmen. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Hold on, man. You gotta see this other thing I taught her just a minute ago.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Young Ju, have I not taught you never to take from others? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then she made me spend better than a week, taking him out and teaching him to throw rocks and kill snakes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the others copied me and went around the house showing everyone what I had just taught them. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“He better be. Your fool granddaddy taught him.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I think the reason they took me is that their only child, Velma, was away teaching school most of the year, so they had plenty of room for me. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The men were taught to pick locks, crack safes, set booby traps, and use poison. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In school, we were taught that dust bombs or tear gas is more than enough to do the job. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

On the fourth Sunday of each month, Reverend John H. Cross asked the church’s youth to lead the service, teach the Sunday school classes, and take over jobs the adult members usually did. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But soon as he was out of sight I felt ashamed ’cause my old man always taught me and Diego to respect people older than us. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Teachers need a simple way to teach them how to break sentences, so they tell them that sentences beginning with and and other conjunctions are ungrammatical. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps all of us were so, when the first Educers came back centuries ago from Rokanon’s World teaching the “Last Art” to us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I wanted to teach students closer to my own age, but I loved helping my sisters learn. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I think it's possible that I have natural teaching ability. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In front of his parents, I was an obedient wife, just as they taught me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the summer, Lau Po had taught me all he knew, and I had become a better chess player. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For these situations, we were taught how to cause pain through “pressure points”—places where clusters of nerves lie just under the skin. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So I taught myself how to make a fire.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The boys were early trained to copy—though not to read; he had to teach himself that part—and those with any skill were drafted into scribing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The base people will train us to be hard workers and teach us to have pride in our country. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I painstakingly formed the alphabet just as Grandma had taught me to do in order to distract me from my asthma cough. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s true. Your aunt had some odd notions. She taught the child herself. I disapproved, of course. Only leads to trouble.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma taught them, too, and wrote in her diary to keep track of their Latin grammar exercises. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My Trigonometry teacher, Mr. Varner, who I would have hated anyway just because of the subject he taught, was the only one who made me stand in front of the class and introduce myself. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She made adorable squirrel dolls for the children in hopes of teaching them to think of squirrels as beloved pets, but they joyously gnawed the dolls to pieces. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“So let me get this straight: You want me to take Oak away from Faerie, away from everyone he knows, and teach him how to be a good king?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Next winter,” said old Mitsima, “I will teach you to make the bow.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my father tried to teach me smithing, and when I ruined a piece of iron, out came his fist. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

During her years at that well- regarded school, Miss Lumley had been taught a great deal, of both an academic and a philosophical nature. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Winter is a slow time of year for a traveling troupe, but Abenthy put it to good use and finally got around to teaching me sympathy in earnest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma pointed at a building next to the school, the Institute of African Studies, where her office was and where she taught most of her classes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the presence of great power, she asked the spirit of the white crane if it would teach her to fight. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure they were teaching me important information, but by the time I got home, I couldn’t remember a thing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"I've got an ID because my dad teaches here. I take courses from a special school up on the North Shore." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always knew that he was meant to teach his people. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Kapugen had taught her how to hunt birds by sitting still and being patient. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And afterward, in front of the mirror on my bedroom door, I did the self-defense moves Ms. Platt had taught us. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We had been taught that such unions were taboo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worried he might go deaf, he began teaching himself sign language. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Whoever it is, we’ll teach him not to start fires in the devil’s own domain—we’ll teach him a lesson, right here and now!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Red taught her to drive a car along the roads lined with redwoods. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traditional gate schooling has always been a matter of standing still, teaching a horse to tolerate the huge, clattering metal contraption around him while he awaits the loading of other horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same goes for any material you want to teach children. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In the South, it was taught that white people were better than blacks. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

How do I reach and teach children musically? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But three years of keeping up with the ambitious kids at Whitney Young had taught me that I was something more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If they were letters, they couldn’t have been more different from the fluid and beautiful alphabet of Weep, which Great Ellen had taught them to read and write. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The best link I found was a tree branch I had broken in halt After I understood this little piece of sympathy, Ben taught me others. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I just can’t believe my own father would do something he’s always taught me is wrong! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Easily the most boring class was History of Magic, which was the only one taught by a ghost. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

We’re taught that Western civilization originated in the Near East, was brought to brilliant heights in Europe by the Greeks and Romans, and produced three of the world’s great religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It taught me that it is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Instructions. Things—things he shouldn't have known—" “He was my apprentice. I taught him to make weapons. Fine weapons. Teluman weapons. But not for the Empire." An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

All those years I tried to teach her! The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know your father taught you to drive,” he said to me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the idea of trying to resuscitate Ekon the same way Mama had taught her to resuscitate a kondoo calf seemed more than a little foolish. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And she taught me how to jump off. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

An education taught by life, challenge, difficulty and will, born of my own spirit, and the spirit of the world in which I live and that I treasure. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I have no seniority to speak of, teaching seniors sort of rocked the boat. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I taught you to read, Boy, say I, & he says, I am sensible of your Generosity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s the first thing my dad teaches the students on the first day,” she said. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes on: “How ironic that the person who taught me the importance of letting people know I appreciate them is embarrassed by my appreciation.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, we attend a lecture in a high tower, where we are taught about birdsongs. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know if she’d ever heard the song “Elvira” or if she would teach us how to make our own music. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She might be the person who taught me not to let people in, and the thought of letting her in seems impossible, but I take it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My mother and father had taught me how to hit rabbits over the head with wine jugs, then skin them cleanly for fur vests. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk with one foot perfectly in front of the other, like Lee taught us. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When it came this morning in the mailbox, she didn’t read it for two seconds before she asked, “Will you teach me to play, Minny? This bridge book doesn’t make a lick of sense.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The twenty-one years that she had been out of college worked against her for a teaching job. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately the director of the school does not have any system in the method of teaching here, I am very much afraid. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I then discovered with wonder the teachings of the great Buddha. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Yin Lan-lan recited, “Our great leader, Chairman Mao, has taught us, ‘Every reactionary is the same; if you do not hit him, he will not fall. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, at the time, the classic American canon, but also what Volpe felt like teaching and what he thought we would like. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She would teach at the primary school, her own win-the-war effort. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to teach graduate students about diversity in the classroom because they were going to be the future teachers of America. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was a dog here once—wild when he came, but I managed to teach him tricks. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She started making lines, just like her mom taught her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Koffi closed her eyes and searched until she found a memory, a lesson Mama had taught her once at the Night Zoo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We may no longer study or teach rhetoric in anything like the way our ancestors did, but many more of us rely much more heavily on it than ever before. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hassan taught him to read and write—his son was not going to grow up illiterate like he had. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy hasn't taught me what the princess likes yet. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mom had taught us to pick Dad’s pocket when he passed out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Don't wait for your school to teach you, my uncle says, about the revolution. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Magdalena has taught me more about how privileged I really am than all of Minerva’s lectures about class. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was he who, unforgivably, taught her that there are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She taught me the proper rules for reading and speaking, the French language, and how to sew. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was not easy to crawl down the cargo net so loaded, but Ishmael had been able to practice on maneuvers and had taught himself to relax. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Take the boys across the narrow sea to Braavos and teach them to think kindly of me, if you would. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I think it was because of the French Revolution—I mean, because of everything I’d been taught or shown about it. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Have the gods taught you nothing? An immortal does not fight a mere mortal directly. It is beneath our dignity. I will have Luke crush you instead.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We sat facing each other in the dark, playing a free-association game that Ma had taught us when we were girls. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He taught me how to find a kind of grass called apai and how to chew its sweet stems for food. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd said, Noodles wasn't the kind of kid he wanted to teach something like boxing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I have to sit in Mr. O’Dea’s class listening to the catechism and all the other stuff he taught last year. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Animules, cracker trash, and star,” he began, “today I will continue to show you how teaching can be an art form.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His focus is one instilled by mentors at the seminary: “Either we are with the poor, or we are not. God teaches us to most help the poor. Any other interpretation is unacceptable.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And after the same kids saw Lelia and me play with him in the front yard they started in with other things, teaching him words like mutt, mongrel, half-breed, banana, twinkie. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted to teach us the meaning ofxin relation to pi, as opposed to helping us better understand ourselves and each other. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Lord, why don’t they teach classes on this? he thought. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He also employed superb artists to prepare large diagrams used in his teaching. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her mother had been teaching her to decipher the symbols, before the fevers, the awful hacking and coughing and the blood-spattered handkerchiefs, the way her mother wasted away to almost nothing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

That is something the Amity would do: put me in time-out, and then teach me to do cleansing breaths or think positive thoughts. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the move to teach calculus in some high schools seems to me wrongheaded if it leads to the exclusion of the above topics in finite mathematics. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watch them, I think of a tale taught me by Dr. Trefusis in those days following my first whipping, when he tutored me upon antique slavery and its discontents. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“For those of you who do not know, we are joined here tonight by Charity Burbage who, until recently, taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We all sashay, the toes of our heels leading our hips side to side, just like Lee taught us. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And my work for him was public—I taught in his school. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

All my life I’ve had a body worth commenting on and if living in my skin has taught me anything it’s that if it’s not your body, it’s not yours to comment on. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I’d taught at New York University for a few years, and had seen a bit of the academic bureaucracy. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had taught her to disrespect Negroes, but her mother had taught her to respect her elders. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Jones said the Beiderman used to teach art at the castle college. No, not art.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But the luxuries of which Snowball had once taught the animals to dream, the stalls with electric light and hot and cold water, and the three-day week, were no longer talked about. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not fancy like American medicine, I know, just an old remedy my mother taught me.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But now that I actually had to criticize the teachers who taught us every day, I could not find anything really bad to say about any of them. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught Mona and Callie to float too; all three of them bobbed out there like rafts, together. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She likes to say she was never taught to hold her tongue. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little stones, called go, an excellent difficult game. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

All those years in the Academy must have taught her something. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Try a little now. Here is Schiller’s Mary Stuart and a tutor who loves to teach.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liz liked the trick I had taught her, but I wasn’t sure it was enough. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My Instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works,” Jonas told him eagerly. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if she can hear me but I tell her I’m going to remember everything she taught me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Also, Oppenheimer has a local connection to the Bay Area: he taught at the University of California at Berkeley. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

You can teach them to die for Ireland in the daytime, Malachy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The sauce Chris was talking about was something my mother taught me to make a long time ago. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

To keep him from being useless, she taught him the survival skills Nin had taught her: how to spot signs of prey in the undergrowth, how to stalk game, how to shoot. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She taught us to sew and to knit and crochet. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Cari paced back and forth in front of the porch until Wash told her to sit down so he could teach her the names of his tools. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Is it from overuse and oversimplification, like the way irie is taught to tourists at Jamaican resorts? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll teach you to put your dirty hands on my son." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He might just go back to teaching Potions at the end of the year,” said Ron reasonably. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t stop to ask myself then what would happen to all the kids who’d been left in the basement with the teacher who couldn’t teach. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“The moon’s going to be bright enough tonight for us to catch the horizon. I’ll teach you to check Polaris—the North Star.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, at eight, we’re promptly at our desks, and while our father works at the other end of the house, our mother teaches us. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She also taught me words for all the music I heard at home. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Pong started to protest that he certainly hadn't taught his teacher that lesson, but the old man was off and walking down the road again. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But their influence did not last, very likely because nobody was allowed to teach their ideas openly or write about them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In any case, it’s good that you’ve learned that everything in life has its price. This is what the Warriors of the Light try to teach.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had taught himself to forget as best he could. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I know how to fall, Mom. They taught me, remember?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Heavenly Father, teach me to accept all my losses, he prayed. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She thinks working with her will teach me responsibility, clear my head of filthy thoughts. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll use your teachings and carry on as you would," he whispered. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“It is good, my son. But you must never lie to them. Never teach them to disregard their fathers.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir, we ought to teach the people that they are doing wrong in worshipping the images and pictures in the temple.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I mean I just taught her a few things. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When she was thirteen her mother had dressed her in a silk kimono and sent her off to Mrs. Shigemura, who taught young girls to dance odori and to serve tea impeccably. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He taught me how to swim,” I said. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was a fastidious, precise man who ordinarily taught math but had been filling in for the regular art teacher. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says he hates the Life Drawing class, he will not go on with it forever, cooped up in this provincial deadwater teaching the rudiments to morons. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Min was going to teach him to throw pots! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

For example, many airlines teach a standardized procedure for copilots to challenge the pilot if he or she thinks something has gone terribly awry. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning Papa Andrew announced to us that Teacher Sarah would not be returning to teach us. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the war, Hess returned to Princeton and the preoccupations of teaching, but the mysteries of the seafloor continued to occupy a space in his thoughts. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He teaches one class a semester, but most of his time is spent in the Biotech Lab, working on the Genome Project. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw that there was a wide difference between what I had been taught in the lecture room and what I learned in the courtroom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Papa had taught him to work harder than sailors twice his age. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

"To teach you not to panic when it's only four minutes after the time I usually get home." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

While he spread out a thin, woven blanket at the edge of the chamber, Boots tried to teach Temp and Tick to play Patty-Cake. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to recall all he had been taught of the crannogmen, who dwelt amongst the bogs of the Neck and seldom left their wetlands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had grown up with the signs, and I simply obeyed their instructions, as my parents and grandparents had taught me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, someone to teach you how things are around here,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

"Just do as you're told! I shall now test the class on the multiplication tables to see if Miss Honey has taught you anything at all in that direction." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Carla, knowing better as the oldest, gave her hand to the men and curtsied the way they'd been taught to do for guests. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“The one who taught her how to swim.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He believed in equal rights, in knowledge, in hooks; he taught me about people like Paul Robeson, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and Joe Louis. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew how to pack, just as she knew how to cook and clean and do all kinds of things no one had ever felt the need to teach Alex. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I teach classes in nutrition, sanitation, and soybeans, to women who respectfully call me Mama Ngemba and ignore nine-tenths of what I tell them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a great golden glory lasting a half hour each week when Mr. Morton came to Francie ’s room to teach music. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He, an alleged psychologist, noticed not one of the Ten Warning Signs of Nervous Collapse or whatever it was that he was educated to see, and qualified to teach. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He taught them good music without letting them know it was good. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She taught Baby how to take cover if there was no time for the bunker—to lie flat on her belly, hands wrapped around her head. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One thing the simulator couldn’t do was to teach me how to space walk. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a real turkey of a lieutenant that I want taught a lesson by one of your studs. Maybe put him out of commission for a little while. Perhaps ten years.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if you’re serious about teaching at a school someday, you’ll need to study a lot more and get much better training than we can give you here. Just think it over, okay?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure they weren’t just hired to scare you? Rough you up a little to teach you to mind your betters?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If Vern was ninety-five years old, he must have been scuba diving and teaching into his eighties. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They all stopped and turned around, Thorn lifting her chin up like Valley had taught her to. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“So why doesn’t your grandmother like me dating you, other than I teach you bad words?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I was not only forbidden to talk with the press, I was not even to teach in my own Mosque Seven. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They flipped up and landed on top of the backpack—someday, Finn vowed, he would get Emma to teach him that trick. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She taught me to sew, bead, knit, smock, and just about everything else. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really have a summer break in the conventional sense because I started teaching at a university. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dr. Lange taught me to carefully dissolve and remove discolored varnish. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He taught me that dogs can think things out—that they can reason. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: Or would you teach me how to fish so I wouldn’t be hungry anymore? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He healed rapidly—his hands became amazingly tough—and strangely suffered no real long-range difficulties from the run down the river, probably because his earlier time—the Time—had taught him so well. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Many, like Dorothy, brought years of teaching experience to the position. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Angelo, my hunting tutor, has taught me how to read the ground for signs of pig. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She taught us that you could wash yourself up pretty clean with just a cup of water. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What the hell are they teaching you in that school of yours? With the Boston Tea Party the Americans were revolting against another country that was oppressing them.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I want someone who can teach me something I don't know. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Ever since I started student teaching at Wilson High, it seemed like some teachers had it in for me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Had he not taught me to use it? Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The fair taught men and women steeped only in the necessary to see that cities did not have to be dark, soiled, and unsafe bastions of the strictly pragmatic. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After his father had given him the camera, he’d taught Fadi how to use it, sharing his own passion for photography. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Will you teach me how to bead that pattern?” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even though Mr. Larson had not done much day-to- day teaching for a number of years, quite a bit of learning happened in room 145 anyway. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

After a couple of years, the Captain raised Dad to section foreman, taught him how to lead men and operate and ventilate a mine, and instilled in him a vision of the town. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Racism teaches us that we are different because of the color of our skin. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

During a European sojourn, he surprised a colloquium at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands by delivering a lecture in Dutch, which he had taught himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Right. But it is said, if you read the Book of Enoch, that he did this because the Grigori were teaching the humans too many things like astrology and the arts,” Isadora explained. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She would follow and try to talk to him while he fussed over his horses, until one evening she asked if he would teach her to ride. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Pretty good. Glad he didn’t decide to teach me five lessons.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jam didn’t quite believe the line, but they’d been taught it all their lives. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She takes up space, and food, and she causes problems with the discipline of the tykes, telling them stories, teaching them games so that they make noise and disrupt the work.’” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aristotle was still taught by rote, and the only thing a Cambridge education fitted anyone for was to be a competent priest or a bad doctor. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes as they lovingly patched and painted, they listened to Bill’s records or sang, Leslie and Jesse teaching Bill some of Miss Edmunds’ songs and Bill teaching them some he knew. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

A note elaborates that Tío Alejandro was the one who used to own English saddle horses and taught you four girls to ride. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They taught reading The school, the same one my own children had gone to, was close enough to walk to. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley hadn't taught him the "h" sound either. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Fill them up, her great-uncle has taught her, whenever you can. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had arranged this special practice, giving his freshmen a chance to scrimmage against a few members of the varsity, to show off all he had taught them and they were doing lousy, rotten, terrible. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Mom started teaching, I thought maybe we’d be able to buy new clothes, eat cafeteria lunches, and even spring for nifty extras like the class pictures the school took every year. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some nights when I cannot sleep, I lie in bed and play that game Minerva taught me, going back in my memory to this or that happy moment. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had used the ancient name for peculiars, the one Miss Peregrine had taught us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Later, Patti teaches me how to use the phone to call Rani. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Grandpop, able to see, teaching Dad how to hold a rifle. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Velutha curtsied as he had been taught to, his mundu spread like a skirt, like the English dairymaid in “The King’s Breakfast.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother can teach you,” said my dad. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The docile, obedient student came home a shrill and precocious son who insisted on correcting and teaching his parents with the remark: ‘My teacher told us....’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hurrying in, I saw they’d pushed all the parlor furniture back against the walls, Miss Love had put on a new dance record, and by golly she was teaching Grandpa the turkey trot! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It’s called jazz, and Mrs. Walton’s been teaching it in chorus for two weeks now. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was a proverb Old Nan had taught him as a boy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had no desire to teach, so I sold our house and moved into Anne’s store. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you could be taught by a governess. If I could find someone...” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nokomis taught, but someone had to tend the sugarhouse fires, so many days she stayed instead of going to the ceremonies. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

What is important is, rather, the idea that experience isn’t simply useful because it can teach you things that other people already know: experience can actually teach you that what other people know is wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But this is not what I was taught to expect of factionlessness. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking about it now, I can understand why I was taught to keep away from women. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I could show you some of what Captain Smith is teaching me.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She was learning to write her name in Zhaganashimowin, the white man’s language, and she taught Omakayas the things she learned. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Wanting to see, I focused my eyes as the eagles had taught me, and there the genie would be—shaking one bead out of the pouch and casting it at us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is taught how to interact comfortably with adults, and to speak up when she needs to. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Goals and objectives: What will students be able to do when I’ve finished teaching my lesson? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He taught me to look into myself, to find my own strength, to walk around inside myself in company with my soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We could volunteer at homeless shelters and food banks. Or teach kids math. Or play board games at Mrs. Gilbert’s senior citizen complex and walk rescue dogs at the animal shelter...” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“But the thing is, a mistake can teach you a lot more than a perfect seam.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a thin plastic case from the middle of the stack, the way Uncle had taught me to choose a card when presented with a fanned-out deck. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

In jail, Amma taught me never to pester anyone about their past, but a question slips out of me before I can stop it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The white man has perverted the simple message of love that the Prophet Jesus lived and taught when He walked upon this earth.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least Mrs. Hawkins, who taught general sciences, was there, collecting papers, gathering things up at the end of the day. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Then I told the policeman how Mr. Vandermeer was teaching his rats to play basketball with a teeny ball for a science experiment. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Not only was he compiling new codes for Army use, he was also teaching cryptography to Army officers, as well as breaking ciphers and codes on demand. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She’d been taught in school that they were full of life, but this one was like the deserts she’d imagined as a littlie—featureless humps stretching into the distance, one after another. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Singer had always greatly enjoyed this game, and years before he had tried to teach it to Antonapoulos. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Another thing Owen had taught him: how to do all things without the motor. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught us real ballet steps and let us make up our own combinations. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She claims that since Anatole gave her the bow, and since it was Anatole who requisitioned her to teach school, she must not be breaking any social customs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, if football taught him anything, it was how to hit something hard. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Many a night, I drifted off to sleep, filled with wonder at how the two-edged-sword teachings so hurt, confused, concerned, and upset the government full of men trained highly in all of the modem sciences. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meine Mutter”—I pictured Cliff squirming in his seat—“always taught me that apologizing is the polite thing to do.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“You will be able to teach him all your tricks, so that he grows up to be the greatest knight in the world.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what of Christina’s worries that this flew in the face of Biblical teaching? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The authorities had provided a translator for Mollie, but she waved him off and spoke in succinct English, the way the nuns had taught her as a child. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The school’s long-term goals for students were implicit in what teachers never bothered to teach. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She had taught him to read and write so they could communicate with one another. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Still, her mom had taught her some techniques, and they helped. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“O wisest of the wise, maybe you can teach me this method of thinking to not think.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Or they’re trying to teach you,” Tao suggests, pinching a hole in his threadbare tunic. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He never taught me that they made no judgments about what people believed, but designed things for them within the confines of those beliefs. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Marcia and Benny both taught history, they came from the South and they even looked alike, with their smallish bodies and honey complexions and long Iocs grazing their necks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It is claimed that you can teach your kidneys to change the rate of urine formation, raise or lower your blood pressure, change your heart rate, write different brain waves, at will. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On those teaching days, Nigro would greatly increase his son’s allowance if he’d sit still long enough to learn chess tactics. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what expert he was talking about, but at that moment, I wished so much that Gran could have been here to teach me alongside Doc. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Kodály Song Web contains hundreds of American and other folk songs from around the world, as well as musical information on every song to help teachers learn and teach them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Once she almost fell headlong down the steps, but Syrio Forel had taught her balance in another lifetime, when she was the girl called Arya, and somehow she recovered and caught herself in time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The second, slightly more optimistic conclusion is that, in some way, our schools are failing poor children: we simply aren’t doing a good enough job of teaching them the skills they need. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

If you want to help savages, her father said, teach school. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Music should be taught through the tactile, kinesthetic, aural, and visual senses. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But Judd’s out to teach me a lesson, and I’m out to teach him one. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorothy updated her classes with a unit called Wartime Mathematics, teaching students to apply arithmetic operations to household budgeting and wartime ration books and updating classic word problems with airplanes instead of cars. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But when Mr. Muhammad’s teachings reversed my attitude toward my black brothers, in my guilt and shame I began to catch every chance I could to recruit for Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They glowered in sulky silence through the rest of dinner while I made light and pleasant chitchat as I’d been taught ladies do, discussing the weather and inquiring about everyone’s day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

"And I suppose Miss Honey wasted the whole of one lesson teaching you to spell that one single word?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do they have snow falling? Are they teaching children that a Christmas is not a real Christmas unless snow falls like it does abroad?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad could tell what kind of minerals and ore were in the ground from the color of the rock and soil, and they taught us what to look for. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn't that what life was now teaching him? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Danielle used some natural ingredients her grandmother had taught her about. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She also believed in action movies, weight training, the power of makeup, memorization, equal rights, and the idea that YouTube videos can teach you a million things you won’t learn in college. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I want to be logical, practical, the way Pop taught me to be when dealing with injuries. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to be teaching you all a thing or two when my ship arrives,” she says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

What if Helen got a job and if, in addition to his usual course load, Ralph taught summer school and night school? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught Matt to sit still and wait for things to come to him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first it seemed like Styx Malone had everything to teach us, but it turned out he had plenty to learn. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

What I remember from Sunday school at First Presbyterian was kind Mrs. Ness teaching us to sing “Jesus Loves Me,” her silver hair in a bun, a guitar in her lap. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Orthodox teaching was that the moon, being a heavenly body, was a perfectly smooth, round sphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My parents could barely afford it, so I would teach her turns and leaps, and she’d end up doing them better than me. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Developing more positive attitudes about teaching students with behavior disorders goes a long way to reduce the stress of teaching them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Every animal has something to teach us,” Cole said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The following day she tries to teach me how to make sofrito, and the day after that, I go with her to some social justice thing at Breanna’s college. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Then I shall come home and teach drawing for my living,” replied the aspirant for fame, with philosophic composure. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

We taught our children to read and write. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Breathe, breathe,” we chant, as we have been taught. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Scotland. There’s a university there. For Dad to teach particle physics.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She was, however, grateful for any evening of escape from the other men and for the large redheaded man’s attempts to teach her their language. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d click her invisible fingers, reciting rhymes Peachy taught her when she was very little. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Park could never master something new if his dad was the one teaching it. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“College will teach you that God is dead. But God is not dead. He is alive and he shows himself to those whose faith shows signs of life.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I actually taught the principal’s son a few years back.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My dad is home early from teaching, and I can already smell roast chicken in the oven when I walk in. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s a little rudimentary, but this book helped to teach me what it is to be human,” he says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Didn’t matter how good he got; he never could teach me boxing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least some of the teachers are smart and decide to let us watch movies instead of actually trying to teach us stuff. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“To begin with, I could teach these boorish ogres how to eat properly.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lina taught us how to roll our hair, and how to curtsy if we met a king. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s going to teach you all that,” Bridge reminded him. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He used to teach high school English, and Mom says he got everyone to love reading. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Don't they teach you to swim in school?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“We were initiates together. I was bad at fighting, so he taught me every night after everyone was asleep.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I have been teaching in Cambridge for thirty years,” he said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My mother tried to teach me, but she sucked at it, too. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She had taught Seth how to mix paint and given him samples of which hue corresponded to each number. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And teach me he did: In those fifty minutes, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Doc can teach us some kind of a hex to put on her.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

For twelve years, I had taught that within the entire Nation of Islam; my own transformation was the best example I knew of Mr. Muhammad’s power to reform black men’s lives. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself standing in front of a class full of Yemis, teaching. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The one who taught me how to angle the blade beneath my chin when I shaved. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“And I’m glad you came to see me, but right now I have to teach a class.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, and despite Cassiopeia’s rather adorable attempts to teach it polite party conversation and socially useful phrases, the squirrel was not talking. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I'll give my dad credit; he never claimed it was to build character or teach me the value of hard work. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It—it— we—I never had such a student. In all my years of teaching. I shall always be grateful—” He wanted to comfort her. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ll teach you until you can beat me with your eyes closed.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“You are; you and your teaching. I’ve spent a long time at sea, but I’ve never had less trouble with a crew. So you’ll come? Supercargo—and all your time your own between ports?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have journals full of sad poems, and they didn’t smile from ear to ear when Ivy taught them how to draw cute animals and glass girls. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

These were the books containing powerful Dark Magic never taught at Hogwarts, and only read by older students studying advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Apparently, class has started without our knowing, because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, "You feel what, Tiny?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Then he decided he was going to teach me poker, which I sort of liked. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had been telling how in 1963, I was trying to cope with the white newspaper, radio, and television reporters who were determined to defeat Mr. Muhammad’s teachings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Creating active listeners who can focus, concentrate, and direct their attention should be one of the main goals of teaching, and one in which music can play a vital role. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“He had a boring job before he switched to teaching, so he’s just excited to be here,” he said. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her mother had taught her to read using the Bible and occasional pieces of newsprint that came their way, but Polly longed for books of her own. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to teach her a lesson,” he says without stopping. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When Park's dad heard, he said, "Somebody needs to teach that Murphy kid how to make a fist." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

If Jimmy had taught him anything, it was how to stand up to questioning. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I learned the rules rapidly and was soon teaching George and my sisters. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He done taught me de maiden language all over. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“The sugar. That’s how I was taught to drink it, too. I remember, you used to just mix it into your tea. Two cubes, then a splash of milk, just like a Brit.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s much nicer when he explains something to me than when I have to teach him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was how Dad had taught her to be in the forest. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had to spend eight weeks up in Charleston, taking college courses to renew her teaching certificate. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What could you do, an untrained child? I have no time to teach you—you would be more trouble than help.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, Mama Ya-Ya keeps teaching me every day. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then Nicolas understood that there was no way he could continue teaching The Truth without money. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I began to cry when she added, “Forgive us for his bad manners. My daughter, this one standing here, will be sure to teach him better lessons of obedience before he visits you again.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his vast experience, he offered to teach me the finer points of the game. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book Aristotle is holding is his Metaphysics; the text, translated, reads: ‘A sign of those who know is that they can teach.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I did fare a bit better the next day, and the day after that, Mama sent me to V-gallery, at the back, where Officer Smith had taught me so well during my training. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My challenge for you, Camellia, is for you to become the favorite, and teach my daughter. Will you?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She traveled the world after that, her name made, teaching girls how to defend themselves against shamblers, and finally marrying a handsome French duke. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Shoemaker had an Iowa connection–his daughter-in-law taught at the University of Iowa–and he was familiar with the Manson crater from his own studies. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“And she taught you the coloring, as well as the stitches?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aristotle needed to attract pupils—and while his rival Isocrates was teaching rhetoric, the Lyceum needed to be able to compete. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He loves to fight, arid he '11 teach his boys to love it too. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was Rhetoric and Logic, the book Ben had used to teach me argument. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we should move, maybe I should find a different job. Go back to teaching, maybe. Would you like that? You could live in a neighborhood with other kids and have a more normal life.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Deborah wanted nothing to do with fighting Hopkins —she was too busy raising her children and trying to teach herself about her mother’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I remembered poor Mr. Hauser, who, in a meeting with my mother, broke down in tears of frustration at the prospect of teaching me ninth-grade algebra for the third—or was it fourth?—time. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Islam teaches us to look into the woman, and teaches her to look into us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sound recordings were made of Mr. Muhammad and some ministers, including me, teaching black audiences the truths about the brainwashed black man and the devil white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. In fact, I was discussing the matter with two colleagues in a room at the Trout. And it was your Malcolm who was serving us. That’ll teach me a lesson.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Beam work, sack dragging, cinder blocks. All that core work you taught me.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

This old pathogenic role, which has been taught to all the medical and veterinary generations of our time, is quite true. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Over time Boo’s mother taught him how to be a good elephant. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Also it was different not having a father and mother, and Kay had taught him that being different was wrong. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always has some big teaching scheme even when we are nowhere near a classroom. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even before I learned how to cross a street, my parents taught me to keep track of time in the afternoons to make sure I didn’t get caught outside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nan had taught me to be cautious when it came to commitments. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She calls each child one by one and teaches her how to hold the rifle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had already studied everything that was taught there except French, music, and dancing,” she wrote, “so I devoted myself to these accomplishments.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Alex also taught me how to ride a bike, or at least he tried. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Experience had taught them that their own government could not always be trusted. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Skills: listening, speaking, writing, story telling, explaining, teaching, using humor, understanding the syntax and meaning of words, remembering information, convincing someone of their point of view, analyzing language usage. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Mom says, “You give me cooking lessons. Jewish apple cake, charoset for Passover, challah—the recipe and the prayers. I want to learn. Will you teach me, Nadya?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“As soon as I got to college, I found a part-time job and saved up all my money for new clothes. I bought magazines to teach myself to do my makeup.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

‘That’s enough! Don’t try and teach me my job. We were awake all right. We knew there were funny things going on.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He tried to think about the lessons the beaver had to teach but he grew frustrated by how poorly he carved. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Shigemura taught Hatsue to sit without moving and claimed that she would not mature properly unless she learned to do so for extended periods. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

So he kept himself in shape, and taught himself coin tricks, and thought a lot about how much he loved his wife. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He taught her the names of the parts of the body, words for weather, and words for food. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba had been the one to teach him and Kamau those hallowed words when they were small. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s just history. Or don’t they teach that in Brooklyn?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I picked up bits and pieces naturally, and Celia taught me how to find the patterns, to put the sounds together in complete sets.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I have lacked humility, that is true. But it was you who taught me to reach so high,” I said in my defense. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the only way to teach people was to embarrass them, wake them up, make them see the error of their ways. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“By the way, what does your father think of my teaching you?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a huge dog, as fierce looking as a wolf, but soon devoted to Jethro after young Sam Turner had taught the boy how to become the dog’s master. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much as you might work on that and parents might try to push it, you can’t really teach that stuff. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

How could she entertain the idea of returning to Farmville and giving up a job she was good at, that she enjoyed, that paid two or three times more than teaching? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s more a test of my teaching skills than a test of your competence.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I have pledged on my knees to Allah to tell the white man about his crimes and the black man the true teachings of our Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of “nonsense.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The seller teaches us Turkish as he hands over the food, wrapped in greaseproof paper. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley hadn't taught him the "f" sound yet. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

That his daddy had left him when he was small, that his mama worked as a lunchroom lady at the same school where June taught. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the Morse code class he taught was so boring that it made us want to go to sleep, Corporal Radant was the teacher we liked best. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been teaching me how to cook, although I had yet to be allowed to touch anything he was going to serve. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

But they’d been taught to keep quiet with adults, so they never told their teachers how much they were missing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine that he taught his students anything they couldn’t learn on their own. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

And then we discovered the best ‘ ‘fishing’ ’ audience of all, by far the best- conditioned audience for Mr. Muhammad’s teachings: the Christian churches. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had taught her son the ability to be, even in the middle of a crowd, somehow comfortably inside himself. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The scholastic philosophy taught in the universities, based on Aristotle, was, Bacon insisted, caught up in a series of futile arguments which could never generate new knowledge of the sort he was looking for. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Bull Meecham had met Ogden Loring at a PTA meeting and had come home with a single remark: “Any man who teaches a girls’ course like English is bound to be a pansy.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach life. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Her apprenticeship had taught her to be self-sufficient and resourceful. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’d teach him a trick, like to sit or lay down. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Then you’re going to be blacklisted for teaching jobs,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the week they were together in Amsterdam, she says, he taught her so much and inspired her to be something higher, less ordinary than she had been. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“How is she still teaching? Do you remember those notes I hid all over her classroom that said, ‘You’re an ugly hag, and you’ll die alone.’?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Although my father could neither read nor write, he was reputed to be an excellent orator who captivated his audiences by entertaining them as well as teaching them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She is far in the woods, but the path is safe, and she can finish the teaching that your mother started. “ Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have five kids and I take pride that I taught them yes ma’am and please before they could even say cookie. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, he informed me that it was time to begin teaching me some skills. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had us all reading books without pictures by the time we were five, and Dad taught us math. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But my father had taught me that there are not two reasonable opinions to be had on any subject: there is Truth and there are Lies. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s a word Dad taught me when we passed through Grand Central Station. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“It appears that I have not yet taught my son the meaning of character and integrity,” Daddy wrote. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Olinski was the first teacher Epiphany ever had who taught from a wheelchair. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She talked to the principal about examinations for her teaching certificate, perhaps a year early. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those who were formally students or involved in professions such as civil service, medicine, art, or teaching are considered morally corrupt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, it was still kind of a new routine Aurelia was teaching me. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At St. Jude School, the nuns had taught Mary Louise and her siblings to respect all people regardless of their skin color, and she did. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I teach Ray tic-tac-toe, and we play over and over until the chalk is a nub. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

In his letters, he talked about learning more than just the care of the horses: the other soldiers taught him how to use a sword and a bow, how to ride, how to drill. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

There has been learning, but there has been no teaching. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Like Ashoke, busy with his teaching and research and dissertation seven days a week, she, too, now has something to occupy her fully, to demand her utmost devotion, her last ounce of strength. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first thing we were taught to read. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m too old to be teaching kids how to do stuff, he thought. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mother bathed me and taught me how to clean myself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I am bold to say I was his preceptor in politics and taught him everything that was good and solid in his whole political conduct.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Namontack teaches me more Algonquian words as we work alongside each other with the house building, and I am getting much better at the language. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I taught him how to take the T—how to feed his card through the slot and push through the rotating gate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“No one really knows if he’s actually the one who said we should get up after we fail, but I’m guessing he would’ve thought it was true. He believed an easy life doesn’t teach much.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She explains that she teaches trombone, Ms. Min flute, Mr. Tingle trumpet, and Mrs. Spitz directs the choir. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s my only hope. I don’t know anyone else who can teach me.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What the heck kind of history are they teaching you in school, then?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I tried to teach your daddy how to do this when he was a kid,” she goes on, “but he wanted no part of it. Never been the outdoorsy type.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

You taught me how to jump in the waves that day. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Isaac, she’s all right. She got a whipping once for teaching a slave how to read. Tom Weylin was the one whipped her.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He used to teach at the university, too, but then his family sold some patent or something, for some kind of waterproof material, and he got rich and quit. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to teach him to read, and he can, a little. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The school helped me so much because they taught me how to read and take notes on what I read. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She taught me how to count stitches, how to make chains that became rows, how to join rounds, when to fill in, and when to build space around stitches. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But when she got to the Sunday school—held in the Maer Hall laundry—and tried to teach the children, she couldn’t concentrate. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

These schools were teacher preparation courses, usually with access to model schools where teachers in training could observe and practice teach. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But the climate in Pisa did not suit him, and in 1659 he returned to Bologna to teach medicine. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Almost everything about the jungle felt new and foreign, but doing this felt like home; Mama had taught her years ago how to start a fire. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Dad taught me it’s okay to give in to your emotions, but you should fight your way out of the bad ones, too. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Grover’s leash was red — she thought, the red string, then she saw herself, being taught to play dead. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the 2,500-year-old Greek idea of an axiomatic geometry—a few self-evident axioms being assumed, and from them the theorems being derived by logic alone—is not being effectively taught in secondary school. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I had been taught how to swim. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toño wants to teach me all there is about the United States in one gulp, fast fast. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid to teach her both for her sake and for mine. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t think of arguing with anything Grandmother had taught her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shall ask Mercy to teach me to knit, Kit decided after the second Saturday, and thereafter she armed herself with wool and needles. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Between Mr. Muhammad’s teachings, my correspondence, my visitors—usually Ella and Reginald—and my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lungs protested as he forced a sharp breath in through the nose and out through the mouth, as Brother Ugo had once taught him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

His southern grandma taught him to cook like this. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Physics was taught by Christian Doppler, the redoubtable Austrian scientist who would become Mendel’s mentor, teacher, and idol. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Your mother had been teaching you the art.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel better facing Mrs. Gruver with the good British posture Nan taught me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Teaching assistant. Professor Thomas had to leave a little early today, so I taught the rest of class.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The campaign had taught me that my every move and facial expression would be read a dozen different ways. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You just showed how much you want it. I can teach a lot of things. But I can’t teach drive.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“He was going to look after him, see that he got taken care of, and got what he needed for his work . . . He was going to teach him how to do the best for himself.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Okay, fine, George Washington, you can teach me that stinky Morse code.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a job for Dad if he wanted, teaching about New Orleans music. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Helena wakes Max early, wanting to show him the string game I taught her, before he goes back to the ghetto. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kazilly, who teaches us both English and history, is a certified crazy man, at least in our opinion. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In his fifteen years of teaching, he had never let anything get in the way of his work. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She is teaching me to braid hair, demonstrating on a lock of her own, laughing when my fingers fumble. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He was teaching me how to live alone.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You never seen a ring of light around the moon? My granddad taught me to look for them when I was a kid. Sure way to tell what weather's coming around the corner." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This type of processing may have implications for teaching, and awareness of the brain’s reaction to music can help inform teaching strategies and techniques. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you are underestimating Miss Lum- ley’s pupils, baroness. A dog can easily be taught a few tricks. Why not these three?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Guards taught him and other children in the camp that they were prisoners because of the “sins” of their parents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Miig had taught us that on one of my first hunts, and I listen to my Elders. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

For the world is divided, experience teaches, into two parts: things to be murdered, and things that would hinder the murder of things: and the Geats might reasonably be defined either way. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So many ignorant lands in need of my knowledge. I will teach them the glories of tilling, irrigation, fertilizing!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I taught today,” she explains, aware that he is looking at her—she preferred to wear a suit when she taught, she says, given that her students were only a decade younger than she was. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Alexander understood that his Latin book was a primer, he straightaway pretended to be “Miss Lumawoo” teaching Latin to his siblings, and there was much laughter. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“We were taught that it constitutes a prime problem in bounty hunting. Don’t you know, Deckard, that in the colonies they have android mistresses?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“She said she would teach us how to make wreaths.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s credited with discerning the different parts of an oration—how to open your speech, advance your arguments in an orderly fashion, and close the deal—and with teaching his methods to others. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I could teach him how not to do that in two to three hours.’ Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He was taking a German course at Princeton now, living with his parents, both of whom taught at the university, and he was going out of his mind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Getting permission to teach senior English has not been an easy feat. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Nature likes things in balance. My pa taught me that. Maybe the screechers kept the snail population in check.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He taught me to serve; he taught me to hide. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m a serious racquetball player, and I taught Chris to play when he was eleven. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some things we remember from our fathers, but no one taught us what it meant to run a home, to build a new life. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I hope that’ll teach you a lesson, you nasty little tease,” she said unfeelingly as he sucked his hand. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You and Mom are going to teach them how to dance,” Matt added. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s so old he teaches a class on Shakespeare because he knew him per-sonally.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

One of them he taught me went: The fox went a-walking, For to have a little flirt; But it made me so sad, For she had no skirt. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are many things you can do—things that will teach you to observe carefully and begin to understand more and more about the true nature of nonhuman animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Give things away? I can’t believe I heard that! What have they been teaching you!” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re having guests, so I want you to teach the girls all the verses to ‘You Are My Sunshine.’” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I was probably more proud of being a “label” than of being a human being, that’s the way most of us were taught. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Did you know,” says Marie-Laure, “that the chance of being hit by lightning is one in one million? Dr. Geffard taught me that.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was what he had taught her to do. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Did you teach him how to kneeli The graveyards of the Seven Kingdoms were full of brave men who had never learned that lesson. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to teach you French. They say it better: au revoir. That’s till your return. Good-by always sounds so final.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In South Africa, the atrocities of apartheid have never been taught that way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Even though he had felt the life leave Pond’s body, it still felt like Pond was in the desert and was going to teach him another song. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Why would he be able to teach me to drive? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They taught me the tongues of the Greeks and the Romans and opened for me the colonnaded vistas of those long-forgotten empires, in this, the dawning of a new empire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Why, of course you will, Mr. Hare. What a bore you must think me. I’ll probably sit around on the common here and teach the rats to make daisy chains.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Some of the Hob women tried to teach her to no avail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"We have to teach these people that it's okay to live again," they'll say. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The church was the center of my community when I was a child, and much of who I was came from what I had been taught at the Church of the Master. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I try not to wish he could make good on his promise to teach me to swim. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The previous week Mr. Pennyworth had been teaching Bod about Elements and Humors, and Bod had kept forgetting which was which. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“In time, we would teach you to do more important work.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

This is a perverted idea of family loyalty....They claim faith, but this is not what the gospel teaches. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I realized I was holding the book he had used to teach himself the mathematics he needed for his job. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The huntress looked at her curiously and asked, “Who taught you to track?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the song of the Lincolnshire Poacher that Mr. Revere had taught Johnny and Johnny had taught Rab. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if she would teach able-bodied third graders the same way. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

That’ll teach me to get cocky, I think, and I scramble to my feet. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

This time, I let go of the inhibitions, the safeguards I’ve taught myself to always hold up. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was curly-haired and foul-humored, and seemed better suited for covering dangerous wars in far-flung countries than for teaching history to undergraduates. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Only slowly do we teach ourselves the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had taught her to climb, to trust the rope, the swing, and finally, to trust in her own skill, to believe that if she leapt, she would reach the other side. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But Leo taught me forests struggle mostly because of people. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I remember something about that. The nuns at St. Agnes taught us that Diocletian was a huge villain, right along with Nero and Caligula.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"Did you see how quickly she followed orders? How she didn't question me? They were supposed to teach you that. Du Barry was supposed to teach you to have reverence and respect for your queen." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mormons are taught to respect their country and its leaders, even if one disagrees with them. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I always try to do the right things. My mother always taught me to be nice to people because she said that way you won’t get into trouble and you’ll always have lots of friends.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two years at Hogwarts hadn’t taught them everything about the castle, and they had never been inside North Tower before. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m doing this to show you something, to teach you a lesson!” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would teach me to embroider if I would teach her English. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is taught to write letters that hang from a bar, and eventually to cobble these intricate shapes into his name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"A child, on the other hand, stays impressionable and eager to learn. Catch one young enough,” Dad insisted, "and there’s no limit to what you can teach.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle said he’d leave him alive if he untied him, so he did, and then my uncle killed him anyway just to teach him a lesson.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Elijah Muhammad teaches his followers that, first, the moon separated from the earth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d teach us old songs in Korean, drinking songs, school songs, whatever we could learn. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Merlyn had taught him about animals so that the single species might learn by looking at the problems of the thousands. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father and mother and all the saints had taught him from his earliest childhood what was the will of God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Is it supposed to teach me not to kill myself? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“They let me borrow some of the school drums. I've been teaching myself.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Toomer had taught that all fish, the greatest and smallest, listened to the testimony of the tide in their every nerve ending, in every bone, and in every cell. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty used to stop there with Milton to buy cantaloupes, teaching Milton how to pick a sweet one by looking for tiny punctures left by bees. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I discovered that my father’s method of teaching me Talmud and his patient insistence that I learn Talmudic grammar—I had painfully memorized an Aramaic grammar book—was now standing me in good stead. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We could teach them a thing or two.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A twisted experiment where he wants to check how well we can teach ourselves.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He kept me alive, moving me forward, teaching me more than I ever needed to know. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Polar bears wrestle with elephants in Australia and penguins teach Zulus how to play bagpipes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“She did. Look, it ain’t that. I just wanted to see if maybe you’d teach my brother and sister to read.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

For those teaching unions, ‘brighter’ and ‘abler' are dirty words.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"He wants to hear you re-cite all your pretty little words the way the septa taught you. He wants you to love him . . . and fear him." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But your gran taught me lessons just like your uncle is teaching you and Jay. I simply decided I didn’t want to learn anymore. For reasons I will tell you when you’re older.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“As I recall, given that you’re a year older than me, I was taught by my parents to call you Gogol Dada.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The school is a refugee center now. I sometimes teach the children in the yard.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I have perhaps given her a little more decision of character, have taught her to think on points which had not fallen in her way before.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Thankfully, if you are here, you already know how to get on and off a moving train, so I don’t need to teach you that.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When I walked into Mr. Harding’s room on Tuesday, I still didn’t know how I was going to teach Liz to be quiet. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t have the contacts to get a job at the teaching hospitals in Chicago where she would get better training and higher pay. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

That’s why black prisoners become Muslims so fast when Elijah Muhammad’s teachings filter into their cages by way of other Muslim convicts. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught me the work of the forge, and even Robin admits there’s no one better to quiet a horse. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was happy that Mother was able to teach in a covered shack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Your mother ever teach you how to do laundry?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

This was going to teach us about independence and self-determination. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next time DeeDee made one of her remarks, I lunged for her, summoning everything my dad had taught me about how to throw a punch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Americans taught us how to build prisons. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So I got off and I said to him, ‘I think you better stop right there or I’m gonna have to teach you a lesson.’ The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Valentine and the farm’s parents paid her to teach their children, and there were always more children. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“In nursing school,” she said, “I was taught by the doctors that the role of medical science is to relieve human suffering, and I’ve lived by that motto all my life.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“If we’re going to go our separate ways soon,” the boy said, “then teach me about alchemy.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least white America had taught us how to count . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yet our priests fast, and inflict on themselves severe punishments, and we are taught to bear our sorrows in silence, and all this is so that the soul may be cleansed.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the prerogative of moles, after all, which only certain American lifetimes can teach. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He tried to teach me the names of all the flowers," said Daoud. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The rest of that day was spent experimenting with the simple sympathetic binding Abenthy had taught me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“They are people who preach the teachings of the Christian God.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley had to figure out how to teach him to recognize each letter. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“This case has taught me two things,” said Judge Davis in rendering his decision. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Levittown of my youth, and of Volpe’s early years in teaching, was the great suburban dream before the invention of the dream’s antidotes—video games, cable TV, the Internet. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And I suppose they teach you that the world is flat and that there are dragons gobbling up the ships that fall over the edge.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I was taught about demolition and mortar-firing and I learned how to make small bombs and mines — and how to avoid them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Repetition teaches the donkey, as the old Iraqi saying goes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In South Africa back then, it wasn’t common to find a white person or a colored person who spoke African languages; during apartheid white people were always taught that those languages were beneath them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was teaching me more about these streets than my pops ever did. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

T then teaches the refrain “Waiting for a partner,” line by line. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He’s my literature and linguistics teacher, and he’s currently trying to teach me how to conjugate basic Kushoto verbs. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You can teach me, and then when we play Hamlet, you can be Laertes, and we’ll make a fine thing of the fencing scene.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The matter of the Lady Galadriel lies still between us. I have yet to teach you gentle speech.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"Sleep. I am much better rested since you began to visit us, my lord. And Marei is teaching us to read, perhaps soon I will be able to pass the time with a book." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I knew that nothing could touch him to have mercy once he decided a Negro should be “taught a lesson.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you’re a jolly useful chap whatever happens. You just stay and teach me, or be the librarian or something. Don’t you leave an old man alone, after the children have flown.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ever think about teaching your kids how to work on cars someday?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She invited them to eat, gave them clothing and shoes, and taught them how to read and write. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We danced around the ironing board, with Mami guiding my hand, pressing down on the iron, and standing away for a minute to see me do as she’d taught. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He took several deep breaths, finding his chi as Butler had taught him. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Kaprice taught her kids to look out for one another, even when their inclination was to squabble. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In any case, I was happy with the skills Frank had taught me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The same person who taught me to appreciate poetry also taught me the value in writing it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“If you want to be taught at home, I’d have to ask someone else to do the math. There is no one else with the—with the time.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few made matters worse by offering more: an unusually large starting salary; a reduced teaching schedule; free university housing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught her how to move the wheel with her foot while her hands flew across the moistened clay to make vases and jugs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were not in the least bit interested in teaching the masses of Jews, in communicating their knowledge and uplifting the people. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I came to teach you how to make soap. Do you know how much they are selling common bar soap now?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even though the sheep didn’t teach me to speak Arabic. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr.Thomas L. O’Halloran teaches three classes in one room, sixth, seventh, eighth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“We will teach the boy English,” Reverend Hunts says, “and then I will tell him the good news of Christ, and he will bring that message to his people.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Every few days, Deydey took it out to play solitary games and try to teach the strategies to others. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He taught me how to sing with my heart. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There were so many things she had tried to teach me, but I didn’t listen. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad taught me. It’s military. Gathering strategic evidence.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“No, no. She went to the high school. She teaches there now. My teaching methods are a little different from hers, but I have a feeling you’ll enjoy yourselves.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Our afternoons together taught me that there was no formula for motherhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

An old weatherworker of the Vale, seeking to win the boy as prentice, had taught him several charms. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Aye, teach me that name!” he said, being clear over the fright the goats had given him, and puffed up with her praise of his cleverness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

My mother taught me how to read early, walking me to the public library, sitting with me as I sounded out words on a page. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They are “bunk broken”—taught to eat from a trough. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As the radio program went on, I learned that Hideo, born in London and raised in Tokyo, had taught himself how to code when he was eleven. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He knew, too, that Daisy was teaching the children the cult of meekness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Then what? We just like all the other sellouts who leave and turn their backs on the neighborhood. We can change stuff around here, but instead we run? That’s what you wanna teach our kids?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The closest she had ever been to the sea was her term in the Museum of Natural Wonders; these planks taught her about ships and squalls. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His grandmother had taught him to pray, but he had long since stopped doing that when she wasn’t around. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

"My own son. Hustling a hustler. Whoever taught you that should be shot!" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They don't teach you that equation in school. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls taught me many games my brothers did not learn from the boys—hopscotch, handstands and even walking on my hands, jump rope, and cross-clapping that went along with songs. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

God is one, Septon Osmynd had taught her when she was a girl, with seven aspects, as the sept is a single building, with seven walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We have cots, the table and chairs we acquired in Kinshasa, a collection of agriculture books and teaching tools from Bikoki, my ancient suitcase of family treasures salvaged from Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides his Hollywood work, he spent time in New York City, teaching drama and producing plays. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Maples became a master with time and after the war taught kendo techniques to the army rangers at Fort Sheridan. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You want me to teach you how to swim?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Because he thought I couldn’t protect myself. He didn’t realize how much he had taught me.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"I'll teach you all about human growth and development—what do you need to know?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I was taught by teachers who had themselves been properly educated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is to help Pe Pierre, a friend of Titid’s, to teach the boys reading. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does she teach them how to kill cows?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The point of the computer program, which Schoenfeld created, was to teach students about how to calculate the slope of a line. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was Pacheco’s wife who taught him for free back when she gave piano lessons to any kid in the valley eager to learn. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid did teach her sister to fold the towels. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father taught me how to take in everything at once,” I murmur as I sweep a hand across the text. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Knot had taken on the project of teaching Nailer to read, and it hadn’t taken long for Nailer to begin resenting the tedium of book learning. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Memory teaches me what I know of these matters; the boy reminds the adult. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I taught her how to dance and all when she was a tiny little kid. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Josie was a terrific dancer, and she was teaching Laney how to lindy hop. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But he was adopted by a missionary who taught him English, and then he worked for various English people in Calcutta before signing up for his indenture and traveling across the ocean. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I will teach you to respect your elders,” the desk guard said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“He is a mute, but we have been teaching him his letters. He learns quickly.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve waited almost three years for this night,” I said, “and it hasn’t been easy. I’ve taught you everything I know and I want you to do your best.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught, researched, published in prestigious U.S. and European journals, and ran his company. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a simple class, teaching programming that Jesse had mastered years earlier. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything Kaede had been taught led her to believe that the Xi had no interest in humans anymore. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The great statesmen, the great writers, the great composers, as taught in schools, were all white. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I could get you assigned to Washington—assigned to me even— teach you your way about.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She worked so hard, teaching all day, then studying at night for her master's degree. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This girl taught me how to do manicures and also to work on hair: how to finger-wave, shampoo, and give permanents—but this was on white people’s hair. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was Canadian and taught math at the university. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this would teach the owner—the hard way. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

How will I teach it to want to take on another person’s suffering? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I do wish Achren had finished teaching it to me. I can almost make it out, but not quite, and there’s nothing more irritating. It’s like not finishing what you started out to say.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t think we’d have to teach you a lesson on the first day of school.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Seems these young men here want to teach us how to swing. You up for a few pitches?” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I always thought you could teach me things. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if there is one thing Volpe teaches, it’s that the art of theater is always evolving—rehearsal to rehearsal, one performance to the next. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Since Shin had been taught next to nothing in Camp 14, a radically revised history of the Korean Peninsula was not meaningful to him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

"Yes, Bedi Ma'am. I lock everything you taught me safe inside my head." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“We organize classes in this neighborhood and teach the young ones the ideals of the Biafran cause.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is only math, the dullest bore in the entire world, and he only lets her teach the very littlest kids anyway. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After graduating from Oklahoma State University as the Flying Aggies' top female pilot, Wally had gotten a job teaching military men how to fly. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then, at the end of the perfect day, I taught Calista how to hail a cab. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She said she would teach me how to play if I wanted. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that why they teach us English in school, so we can speak like them?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

These were things you couldn’t teach in a relationship, things that not even love could really build or change. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then she taught us a song called “Good Old Noah.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I have to believe that he took at least some of the lessons we taught him to heart,” my dad says, “and that he kept his own emergency supplies—maybe even has his own bug-out.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My mother was a librarian at Baptist College and sometimes taught classes at other schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Conduct research by reading about and exploring available teaching materials on that culture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Mom taught US Latino literature in the English department, so sniffing out “authors of color” was one of her SuperMexican superpowers. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Dad had taught me to stand up when a lady enters the room, but a look from Grandma kept me in my place. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered how he used to teach this idea in the Group Process class back at Brandeis. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he was going to teach her, she fully intended to learn it. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the two I had been teaching, and they were no bigger than they had been when I saw them last. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If I were going to stay here, I’d teach him how. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He had taught himself all he knew about the transformations of insects, just as she had. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We could use it—and she encouraged it—for notes about her teaching. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

How could I teach my son the way I was taught by my father and not drive him away from Torah? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We spent hours teaching them how to sing in Swahili. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Have I not saved you many times? Did I not lead you through the maze and teach you to use your powers? Do you want revenge for your sister or not?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Amar, my initiation instructor, taught us that our fear landscapes were always in flux, shifting with our moods and changing with the little whispers of our nightmares. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I want to teach,” she says plain as day. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It teaches you how to ruin other people’s lives without caring,” she countered. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The teaching that these private pupils got in Galileo’s home was often very different from the official courses that Galileo was required to teach by the university. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t just in his willingness to accept the Copernican model that Kepler deviated from the strict Lutheran teaching of his time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I can’t wait to tell Daddy that Ms. Jacobs taught us something that wasn’t from a dead white man’s perspective. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Almost as if she were reading my thoughts, Mrs. Moss said, “Standing in the corner hasn’t taught you any lessons. Let’s see if squatting gets better results.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Get him, get that boy, teach him what he needs to learn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At the meetings, the children sang songs, played games, learned slogans, listened to readings, and read propaganda leaflets—all intended to teach them how to be good Nazis. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If he got in the mood, he would sing songs his father had taught him. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was so preoccupied with teaching me how to be a man that she never taught me how to be a boy. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Faith taught that the Seven themselves had once walked the hills of Andalos in human form. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At the end of my second year teaching, I took a group of students and parents to Kenya during the summer vacation. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would not tell us children because we had been born among ghosts, were taught by ghosts, and were ourselves ghost-like. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jupiter and its moons are a kind of miniature solar system and exquisite worlds with much to teach us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Navid had started teaching me how to do the cricket, which was a level of difficulty slightly higher than that, and I was getting better every day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dad had taught them that saying a long time ago. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Though there was no money for lessons, Marian and her sisters taught themselves to play some simple melodies. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

That I did what they taught me to do, take care of the folks I love. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

And once they realized he was serious and a quick learner, they’d teach him whatever they knew. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

So Kin had turned her sword into a bushel of magic arrows and a magic bow, and had taught her everything he’d learned from the Varangians about archery. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We’d been taught to think about each other, but never about the guardians. The idea the guardians had differences between them, that never occurred to us.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the madrigals they still teach children on very hot afternoons in public schools. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

David helped his mother, searching the ruins for salvage, and taught wilderness survival tricks to any ugly who wanted to learn. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“When I punched him back, he laughed and said he thought my dad would’ve taught me better. Happy?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The dude who teaches art history is cool. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Because I spent the first six years of my life with Tribesmen who taught me mercy and compassion instead of brutality and hatred? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Long ago, Athena had taught the mortal weaver Arachne a hard lesson—cursing her for her pride by turning her into the first spider. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Later that year, he schemed a perfect way out: he applied for a job to teach mathematics, natural sciences, and elementary Greek at the Znaim High School. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Ah, noble Crispin,” he went on, “Our Blessed Lord, in His wisdom, must have sent you to me for instruction. “I shall begin by teaching you something. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You said you’d teach me how to use the splendor,” she said. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I think about all the travel words and phrases Mr. Flores has taught us, how ready I am to use them. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My mother taught Prim and I to eat properly, so yes, I can handle a fork and knife. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Papa had taught her a little about it the night she brought it home, right before he went to bed, which he often did directly after dinner. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Her secret is good sex,” Grace said seriously, a Korean-American woman who taught African-American studies, tiny and slender, always in stylishly loose-fitting clothes, so that she seemed to float in a swish of silks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His father had always taught him that there was a solution to every problem. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Meggie just had to teach herself how to decipher the black marks and open the treasure chest. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was taught never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody, not just Negroes. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They were talking about Sitti’s invitation to come out to the village so she could “teach her things” on weekends. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the chest Dad and Devon are making so he’ll be ready to teach other Boy Scouts how to build a chest. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well... they develop it. They plan communities with nice houses, and schools, and industrial parks. They create jobs— construction jobs, teaching jobs, civil engineering jobs—like your father’s.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next few years, Huang Taitai instructed the other servants to teach me how to sew sharp corners on pillowcases and to embroider my future family’s name. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You say that Mistress Tyler taught you to read?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Free blacks can have schools. My mother talked the way I do. She taught me.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I can so specifically remember the exact phrases since, later, I was going to teach them so many times to others. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They teach you how to be a nice little church boy in Santa Monica?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could she teach me to be responsible if she wasn’t responsible herself? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As they lurched into the deeper water they began to row diagonally upstream, against the current, the way Velutha had taught them to. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that I understood why my father was not teaching in this school. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mother said that if I wanted to learn trigonometry, it was her responsibility to teach me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They had taught Fezzik for three solid years before they mutually agreed that he was ready. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He felt that he had to teach them things. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was some White Harbor men who taught dice. I couldn’t say which ones, but it was them.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But simultaneously, true to the principles of doublethink, the Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I guess the Klan wanted to teach the Crowells a lesson about mixing and socializing with whites. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And Ben had taught me about the Alar, the riding-crop belief, back when I was twelve. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If a soldier is a strong and skillful fighter, it is because Pol Pot taught him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They taught themselves to ride the subway,” Byrd continues. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He’d been taught all his life to fear open spaces like the one in front of him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everything I have ever taken for right and wrong these people have taught me—these same, these very people. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I know what you taught me,” I wept, “I know. We were coming back from the river. I was thinking about Ajax’s turtle. I was thinking about the survival of the fittest.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I guess he doesn't realize I don't have anything to teach them. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I thought of the fragments he taught me and the whippings. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’s the closest thing to a friend I got here, just all around a nice person, and that’s something Aunt Aggie taught me you don’t find too often in this world. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s because you don’t teach him,” he said. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Or the time Camilla tried to teach me the box step; or the time Bunny turned the boat over—with Henry and Francis in it—because he thought he saw a water snake? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Matilda is a very lucky girl. She has wonderful parents who have already taught her to multiply lots of numbers. Was it your mother, Matilda, who taught you?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the PTA mothers looked forward to sewing dresses, teaching their sons to do the box step, and giving assemblies on how sixth graders are expected to behave at the dance. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

First, Professor Matthews responded: “Mandela, what do you know about whites? I taught you whatever you know about whites and you are still ignorant. Even now, you are barely out of your student uniform.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We shall begin today. We shall divide the days into teaching thy mind and teaching thy hands, then weariness shall not give thee excuse for discouragement.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

We taught the children how to make pot holders out of yarn and how to glue rice, glitter, and tinsel to paper plates to make collages for their folks. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My brother Alex taught me how to climb the tree to get more fruit, and, of course, I fell out of the tree. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He taught her the proper way to gut a trout, to clean it, to lift the meat off the bone in one motion. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The history of these Indians, Ponting and others have suggested, has much to teach us today. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Warden found a job teaching at a public school and worked a second job helping mentally impaired adults. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m teaching a cardio class at 11 and another at 1. I could pick them up later.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I will lose him in a parking garage or forget him at school. Maybe I would teach him awful tricks. Maybe he would blame me for all this.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There is no one to teach them, so they cannot read. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was a religious mutt, which made him even more open to the students he taught over the years. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Maybe you and Didu can teach me how to sew, too?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At Fort Hare, we were taught to wear a tie and jacket to a social function of any kind. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's always just a line or two that I found from some poem in the gigantic poetry anthology my sophomore English teacher taught from. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“The lieutenant here likes me. I’m teaching him how to play chess.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We didn't know it then, but the coming months would teach us what it was like to spend time in the presence of a wild animal, something completely unpredictable. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jamie and Dylan are college students, camp counselors teaching in a summer program: Wilderness Adventures. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

My parents had always taught me to be polite and to apologize when I did something wrong. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s nothing. One of the knights is a healer. What else did your Manners Mistress teach you?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the strange and mysterious shapes of the letters, the sounds of the prayers as we all recited together, and the stories about how to live a life according to the teachings of Allah. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like her father’s mania - and all the other angry ghosts of her past - Orion could teach her nothing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Good teachers—not fancy electronic gadgets—to teach them to read and to write. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below are a few basic classroom management ideas to use when teaching music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Except later it was Freak himself who taught me that remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before becoming a fiction writer, H. G. Wells had taught science and published two biology textbooks. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

When I was assigned to teach freshmen with below-par reading skills, the head of the English department challenged me, saying, “Let’s see what you can do with these kids, hotshot!” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“A kitten, a nice little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed—and feed—and feed!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

From my own brief teaching stint, I knew that colleges cleared out by June. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On especially black days I sometimes tell myself that if I’d loaded up with degrees when I was able, I might not now be teaching anything quite so collegiate and hopeless as Advanced Writing 24-A. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Amelia Earhart taught us that, for men and women alike, the sky is the limit!” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Believe me, I could teach a college course on snubs. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

This concept can be taught using an object like a bouncy ball. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Initially he’d hoped to teach at the agriculture department at Kabul University. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Who teaches them how to call out to a girl when she’s walking by, minding her own business? Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Lastly, my mother began teaching me how to comport myself in polite society. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Oh, really? Oh, I'm so glad!" the one with the glasses, that taught English, said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They probably have moms who teach them not to touch strange dogs, and little brothers they tease, but just enough. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

First we heard a woman’s shrill voice and then Raymond saying, “You used me, you used me. I’ll teach you to use me.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She had been teaching him a few words when she could. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“She told me that she had been taught by a woman named Annabel.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Nina taught her the words, and they sang together, fumbling through the verses, hopelessly out of key, until the lanterns burned low. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, if you don’t know Pokemon, I could teach it to you. When I get better, I mean. I’m still not very good.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I’ll bathe him and get the ticks off him and teach him tricks and let him sleep in the bed with me.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“But I tell you, I am not teaching anymore for a reason. I don’t have it, the thing you need. I just don’t have.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Desma left teaching to care for what would grow to become a family of five children. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

After bailing him out a few times, Deborah started leaving him in jail to teach him a lesson, saying, “You just stay there till your bail come down to where you can afford it.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You said — to use it against another human was —” “Dumbledore wants you taught what it feels like,” said Moody, his magical eye swiveling onto Hermione and fixing her with an eerie, unblinking stare. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“And he believes a woman is just as smart as a man. He was the first to ever teach us as if we had minds of our own. Perhaps your daughter felt the same way.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She got a job working at the stables, teaching the young kids to ride. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Grant the dear boon of life to this most uncommon tiggy, lordly measter, and he shall sing to thee in numbers sweet or teach ’ee how to suck cow’s milk in the pearly dew.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I examine my patients, I teach them Nature’s laws regarding disease. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She’d taught me to always think of a way out, an escape route, and getting this deep into something made getting back out a whole lot trickier. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Our hardest task is teaching people to count on a future: to plant citrus trees, and compost their wastes for fertilizer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when we were back at her condo, Tillie taught me how to fill a pen, or, as she said, "How to properly fill a pen." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Agravaine quoted a Gaelic proverb, which she had also taught them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to abandon the teachings they had had all their lives about the respect due their elders. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked past the mathematics building, where Mr. Sen taught his classes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"The gods are just, yet Blessed Baelor taught us that they are also merciful. What shall be done with this traitor, Your Grace?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Poppy had taught her the necessary phrases to get through a day. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But be it known that I have now sworn him to my service, and he shall be known as Peregrin son of Paladin and taught the lesser pass-words. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The caseworkers had taught us how to call 911, and we learned how to write our address on a piece of paper in case we got lost. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Bassi held a chair in physics, and naturally taught the physics of Newton. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I am taught something I have already been taught in dozens of other classrooms. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

When they taught, they were at best bloodless and inoffensive; at their worst, they could ruin a child’s life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She taught me a lot and kept me from missin my own family, Macon and Papa. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of teaching me his style of play, which would have been easy for him to do, he let me acquire my own. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even know why I waste my time trying to teach you how to be a woman. Karen wants to put her best foot forward. She takes advice.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also taught me a game called Seek the Stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, we could just have a drawing once a week. Yes, we’ll have one every Saturday! Whoever gets drawn, we’ll teach him to drive. Man or boy.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

To atone for that Tyrion made an attempt to teach her cyvasse, though he soon realized that was a lost cause. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Sometimes things aren't as simple as they teach you in school." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

So the fact that he did not have to teach me nucleic-acid biochemistry was obviously a godsend. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The different ways to teach a song are related to children’s different learning styles, such as aural and visual learning, and the child’s appropriate cognitive development; e.g., age and grade development. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He said he had befriended an old Farsi teacher in Bamiyan who had taught him to read and write. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lupin was reminding him of the sneering Hufflepuff Zacharias Smith, who had jeered at Harry for wanting to teach Dumbledore’s Army how to Disarm. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He taught them to rise above their brutish roots. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

That is when I began to understand the stories Popo taught me, the lessons I had to learn for my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember asking Madrina when she was trying to teach me this tradition why the color of love isn’t pink, or red. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She obviously wanted to teach the kids something. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tightening the knots every time she held Caesar in her lap and taught him a word. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re learning to read already. I can teach you whenever we have time. It’s not so hard, I promise.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Laying a hand on Kate’s shoulder as he prepared to shove off, he murmured gently, “Remind me, though, to teach you a better knot.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes indeed he was uneasy working even such lesser spells as the Summoner taught him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

For more than an hour, Minister Lemuel lectured about Elijah Muhammad’s teachings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maribel works efficiently, tying the boxes of pastries firmly with string just as she was taught. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I’m going to teach you something. This is called ponya seed, and when you mash it into a paste, it’s a great treatment for wounds.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Until this point, I had always been taught to fence defensively by reacting to my opponents. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And one of them is Siobhan, and one of them was Mr. Loxely, who used to teach at the school, and one of them was Mother. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up on Euclid Avenue, I’d been taught that self-sufficiency was everything. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Little did I know how cunningly I was being taught. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was even hinted that, if I kept my grades high, it would be possible for me to teach in the city school system. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe you need someone who can teach you something, hmm? Maybe Rishi is the universe’s way of teaching you how to take a breath and just roll with the punches.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Which one of you taught Methuselah to say that word?” he demanded. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ought to hear my dad play it. He’s teaching me.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“If one student in ten had half his fire I’d teach with a whip and chair instead of chalk and slate.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The second method is a hybrid known as rote-note, where the song is taught mostly by ear, but also involves the addition of some type of visual element, such as showing some notation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She learns everything I teach her as if she already knows it, said the mother, but this knowledge does not really enter her soul The mother seemed puzzled and afraid. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blacksmith god had always worked with Cyclopes in his forges, so Beckendorf took Tyson down to the armory to teach him metalworking. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is like being taught by Jekyll and Hyde. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She learns everything I teach her as if she already knows it, said the mother, but this knowledge does not really enter her soul. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It taught him to hate everything black, including himself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were here to teach,” Ducky said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait until I send you to the mountain school back in the homelands, where they’ll teach you respect. Just you wait and see.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clancy, who apparently had never been taught about respecting someone’s personal space, took a step forward, and I took a step back, off the porch, my feet sinking into the sticky mud. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He also teaches mathematics up to geometry, which he says he never learned because that year was locusts and he was needed on the farm. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I can teach you how to swim, if you want.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Johnny had been taught to clean up as he went along, but today he was in too much of a hurry to bother. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked in the kitchen at Viola’s elbow, which I think she found more aggravating than usual, as she had to cook and teach me at the same time. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Displeased at my stumbling motions, he was supposed to have said, “This is my sister. I have to teach her to walk.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had stopped throughout the rural South to teach Negroes folk songs she had learned at the Library of Congress. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the teachers who had been around a long time, seeing Mr. Larson become less and less professional about his teaching had been especially sad, because they remembered the old Karl Larson. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The first experience taught her there was no other that you could count on; the second that there was no self to count on either. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Pacing the length of the quarterdeck, I thought upon things I could have asked Mademoiselle Nsia: the provenance of the songs and their meanings, who had taught them her. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

At the time Mr. Kapasi had been teaching English in a grammar school, and he bartered his skills as an interpreter to pay the increasingly exorbitant medical bills. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She had always fought with her mother, but Islam taught her that “heaven is at the feet of your mother,” and this reined her in. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Jimmy and three other men in our second class had been chosen to be the new instructors who’d stay behind and teach the next group of code talkers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, they need their mothers to teach them how to live in the forest. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The team from Maxwell walked over to The Souls, shook their hands as they had been taught to do, and smiled the parched way that losers do. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin—who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mom taught French at the prestigious and expensive Kalman School downtown, and his dad was a sociology professor at Northwestern University, just north of the city. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Now that School™ is run by the corporations, it’s pretty brag, because it teaches us how the world can be used, like mainly how to use our feeds. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But can you also make popadam as your grandmother taught you?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You think you taught me how to play, but things are not always as they seem. Perhaps I learned the game from the cheesemonger, have you considered that?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Still,” said Jinny, “can you check in with me next time? Before you teach her something like that?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I taught you to shoot, boy,” Henry shouted, “now shoot!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wood, Pocock murmured, taught us about survival, about overcoming difficulty, about prevailing over adversity, but it also taught us something about the underlying reason for surviving in the first place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The letters were coming out strange and blockish, neither English cursive nor the German-style Kurrent script I had been taught years ago by my tutor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He believed what his Nazi education had taught him: that the leader was always right and that Jews were the enemies of Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I have so much to teach you, Ben.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He spent his free time riding his motorcycle and teaching his niece how to conquer pain and other weaknesses of the flesh. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike Lawrence, who was skilled at communicating concepts but impatient with the burden of classroom teaching, Oppenheimer liked teaching; he just was not very good at it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

School didn’t teach me everything about 9/11. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He began to teach Grover to growl on a certain tug of the leash, a rewarding enterprise. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Luma tried to make sure she didn’t speak Arabic, even when it was easier, and she taught herself not to play favorites. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

That she hadn’t taught me how to live in my own skin and be a girl, like she was supposed to. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy had taught me that a scientific log was a citadel of the facts and that opinion didn’t enter into it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She has been taught what is sometimes called tic-tac-toe math, a different way of figuring algebra and other higher-level math for learning-disabled students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Indian women could teach your American bra-burners a thing or two," Ma retorts. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I let him, praying he has no K-9 dog cousins who have taught him to sniff out people running from the law. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you can teach me how to draw sometime,” I say. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had managed to teach my body to stay afloat on water. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Cowslips are for Owsla*—don’t you know that? If you don’t, we can easily teach you.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could teach Ari-Eil a thing or two yet about revulsion, she thought. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Long ago, when his mind had been a nimble boy’s called Wart—long ago he had been taught by an aged benevolence, wagging a white beard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a guy was offering to teach me how to swim, then for sure he didn’t have a life. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She was still feeling cautious, and more than a little wary of strangers, but...Mama had taught her the rule of kin. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Miss Jiménez liked to teach us English through song, and we learned all our songs phonetically, having no idea of what the words meant. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was a Quaker, like so many of the Caucasians who came in to teach and do volunteer work. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very sad day for me—I had known her for so long, and she had taught me so much. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They taught because no one wanted to marry them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, she really teaches us about the birds and the bees. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We be needing it there to teach us,” he pointed out. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Przemyśl has taught me anything, it has taught me to know this. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was a guide who’d taught them how to spot poison ivy and look for water and find shelter, and Hazel had been too busy dreaming of centaurs to pay attention. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Kainta teaches me how to peel the bark off the sapling, cut notches for the bowstring, and string it with strong gut. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until years later that Ivy realized Taryn’s dad had been a swimmer in college and had taught her the names of all the swimming strokes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His father taught him how to work a punching bag and made him a barbell from two lead-filled coffee cans welded to a pipe. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He taught me more than any teachers ever did. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

While they taught that duty to one’s country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After several semesters Myma disappeared from the college, saying in her offensive manner, “This place can’t teach me anything I don’t know.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Webb’s the one who’s taught me all about the sweet spot. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Obinze would ordinarily not have said anything at all, just watched and listened, but today, for some reason, he said, “Didn’t we all go to primary schools that taught the Nigerian curriculum?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Music expresses children’s identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self-worth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I fold the corners of the paper around the journal just the way my mother taught me, and I hide the gift in a pocket in my bag. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As my sister Deborah grew, I began teaching her the same kinds of athletic things that Alex had taught me, like how to do handstands. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But as she traced the symbol on the cover, she couldn’t help but wonder: If the book was supposed to be teaching her, why didn’t it give her the answers she needed? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Alice turned and walked back to the cluster of stalls, her gait dainty and contrived, as though a misguided person had taught her how to walk “like a lady.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And a colored man taught mathematics at the junior high school. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They begin seeing each other Mondays and Wednesdays, after she teaches her class. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in years, I used one of the tricks Ben had taught me for calming and sharpening the mind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone, even the nine-year-olds, will be taught to clean, break down, and fire a Mauser rifle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The reason I’m saying that is that I don’t think that Johnny had been taught to deal with his feelings. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could make out all the constellations Annabeth had taught me: Capricorn, Pegasus, Sagittarius. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Miller was a large man and a likable one who sometimes on slow workdays organized the boys into teams and taught them intricate games on the playing field. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You know I don’t need lessons anymore, Mullah sahib. You taught me every surrah and ayat in the Koran years ago.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Like many a really good artist, M. Yoshoto taught drawing not a whit better than it’s taught by a so-so artist who has a nice flair for teaching. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Jay said, “You mean, like, fighting them? Are you going to teach us to use weapons?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

This was nothing I’d necessarily want to embroider on a pillow, but still, once the answer left my mouth, I embraced it as a perfectly acceptable teaching philosophy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

"You're lucky that he wants to teach you to be a good boy. If it were me, I would have whipped you!" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Jack assumed that Moshe liked to talk to him because he was young, for Moshe had been a schoolteacher and enjoyed teaching. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

His mom only worked part-time then, and his dad, who’d taught high school science, was off summers. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The same streets that had cared for her family, taught her family, looked out for her family for so many years. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As well as teaching, Marina also took her first flying lessons in 1934. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I will teach you how to make a bow and arrows,” he says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I could teach for a while at the institute.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Your grandmother was not teaching me how to behave in class. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If he came back to Nali’s next summer, would Pond be able to teach him more songs so that he, too, could make it snow? Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She was taught to read the Bible, play tennis, and use a typewriter, which was the only useful thing she was left with after all those years in a foreign language. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Allah created the armies, and he also created the hawks. Allah taught me the language of the birds. Everything has been written by the same hand,” the boy said, remembering the camel driver’s words. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who taught me that no accident of birth—not being black or relatively poor, being from Baltimore or the Bronx or fatherless—would ever define or limit me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He still could have taught him to read. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He taught me how to use his computer to keep the books, process orders, maintain inventory. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I hated it. They didn’t teach enough ballet. I wanted to pirouette.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It shows them that I care enough to make sure they do their tasks correctly. That’s what my father always taught me. And what business is it of yours, anyway?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anyone asked us about our home life, we were taught to respond with, “I don’t know,” and for years I did just that. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you teach the little boys to call you Mother.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That will teach him to obey the rules of Rome.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was my father who taught me to read and write. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, tonight you set a bucket over each of them. That’ll teach them to stay put.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I'll try to teach you to read if you want," Stanley offered. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Everything I do know I had to teach myself on the Internet, because I don’t have anyone to ask. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This is the only time I wish I would’ve let my mother teach me how to cook. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh! So you’re borrowing money. Another poor practice to teach your son.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz had taught her to crack a safe, pick a pocket, wield a knife. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“We can make pizza. My grandpa taught me how to make it from scratch. You like pizza, right?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Mother had taught me about it, when we were picking rosehips or tincturing hawthorn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She opted to earn a degree in education and pursue teaching, the most stable career for a black woman with a college degree. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But if Dvorak’s teaching methods raised eyebrows among his adopted countrymen, his own American compositions were to prove even more controversial. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When I begged them to teach me the secrets, they laughed at me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she taught us the world through literature. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Your parents would be glad you didn’t. Satyrs would only teach you bad manners. I think they invented them.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When my mom died, I remember Maggie teaching my dad how to do my hair. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

West African music also integrates literature, movement, body percussion, rhyme, and music, so the Orff approach is probably the most applicable teaching method. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The Europeans who came ashore at Cape Cod in November of 1620 carried a view of the world that was based on the teachings of Christian religious reformer John Calvin. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad’s two- edged sword was his teachings, which cut back and forth to free the black man’s mind from the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, so you were studying CPR, eh?” asked the instructor as he arrived in the room after lunch, looked at the chalkboard, and noticed what we’d been taught in the morning. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came by ferry once a month and taught a half-dozen island youngsters, including Caroline and me, on our piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede could have chastised her, for their teachers at the Academy had taught them from day one that such a display of power was reckless. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her world is bigger than him and the things he taught her to be interested in. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello,” Molly says, holding out her hand as her father taught her to do. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At Sandringham, we were taught more about World War II thanthe typical black kids in the townships were, but only in a basic way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how your test administrator knew how to do that. It’s not something they’re taught.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I began teaching in New York Mosque Seven that a man’s accomplishments in his life outweighed his personal, human weaknesses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to be as clear as I could, and acted as if I myself were teaching the class rather than merely acting as a springboard for Rav Gershenson’s comments. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dad loved the Jets, which, he said, taught him the meaning of disappointment. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He read that the angels had taught humans the art of war, had taught them astrology, anatomy. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Mama is teaching me. And I’m almost six.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Baba taught both of us to drive and took us to get our licenses. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Settling scores in the deputy principal’s office might seem like a good idea to some, but Dad had always taught me it was better to face things head-on. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The new division of labor meant that a worker only had to be taught how to perform one task. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Bobby had taught himself, after years of practice, to budget his time and he hardly ever drifted into time pressure. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He is associated with Bacchus as well as with Pan; he taught him when the Wine-god was young, and, as is shown by his perpetual drunkenness, after being his tutor he became his devoted follower. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom teaches piano. I got to go back to watch my sister.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

People must learn to hate, and if they can leam to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered a silly wilderness survival course Grover had taught her back at camp. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was teaching Johnny to ride as he did everything else—with a minimum expenditure of his own energy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bees had taught him, he said, to rule wisely. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the schools charge up to ninety dollars, and since I’m what they like to call “low income,” Mr. Ingman is teaching me how to apply for waivers. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His years in the Kingsguard had taught him the trick of listening without hearing, especially useful when the speaker was intent on proving that words were truly wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Well, music. I thought I could teach kids who can’t afford lessons how to play piano. Because music is something that brings everyone together, and it’s a language everyone understands.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

"My grandmother taught it to me," he says. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His mom had taught him the constellations when he was really young, and he’d passed the valuable information on to his little sister, Madison. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Good night, Ophelia. I promise, there will come a time when your Aunt Sarah and I will teach you more about handling haints. For now, please, for the love of all, leave those ghosts be.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But one of the things that Van Riper taught me was that being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous course of education and experience. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

After that she taught me to read, told me stories. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jewish teachers were fired, regardless of their education, teaching ability, or accomplishments. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Will Bates was drummed out of Carter and reassigned to teach industrial arts in a middle school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was teaching him the catechism as he shaved the necks of his roosters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“If you want,” I said, “I can teach you.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Please think about this: When I started teaching, no one had landed on the moon, there were no space shuttles, no CNN, no weather satellites. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to try to teach “Buds” a few tricks—such as sitting up and begging for a tidbit, or sitting with a biscuit on his nose until I said “Okay.” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Nana told me that Mmoatia are the keepers of healing. Illnesses and ailments are their domain—and they will teach cures to those they deem worthy.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His father is a respected climbing Sherpa who taught him the basics of mountaineering at an early age so tThe sirdar is the head Sherpa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“No, sir, not very. My father tried to teach me, but I could not shoot straight.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have offered to teach him to read long before he asked me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had taught me that people like to divvy up one another with names. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some of my Arcanum bunkmates taught me a card game called dogs- breath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I do not know who they got them from, or who taught them to use such treacherous items, but we will find out.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Over the next months, he taught me how to remove stains, how to ensure that leather was supple. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But well played. Hector the Haggler taught you well.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Vincent is willing to try it because this school in Brussels will teach him exactly what he wants to do—preach to and help poor people. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I come in with a series of techniques he’s taught me and then use a bit of swordplay I learned from the Ghost. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He thereby taught his listeners to imagine their union with many others Eke themselves. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight it sends me Rue, still decked in her flowers, perched in a high sea of trees, trying to teach me to talk to the mockingjays. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And anyway, it’s what she’s been taught since she was a baby. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

An older sister taught Elijah as much as she was able at night. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z