Best Teaching Quotes

• It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.

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  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teaching   Successful   Opportunity  

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• Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.

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  Sathya Sai Baba

  Teaching   Example   Aids  

  4376

• There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing to themselves. Yes, they may at the moment have incredible power and are supported almost unconditionally by especially America, but most of the West as well. Yet what they are doing is contrary to the best teaching and highest teachings of their faith.

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  Desmond Tutu

  Teaching   Israel   America  

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

  2775

• I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

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  Richard P. Feynman

  Teacher   Teaching   Thinking  

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, p.5, Basic Books

  3916

• The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

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  John Knowles

  Teaching   Yale   Letdowns  

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