Good Teaching Quotes

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  • Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

    The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)
  • I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

    Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”
  • The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

    "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.
  • I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

    Jesse Stuart (1958). “Thread that Runs So True”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
  • The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

  • The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  • Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  • There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

    Funny   Witty   Teacher  
    Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)
  • When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

    Teaching   Math   Science  
  • Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

    Education   Wise   Clever  
    Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
  • Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

  • Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge-and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.

    Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons
  • Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

    "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.
  • I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

    Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

    Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225
  • Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  • I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

  • It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press
  • No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

    Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.417, Routledge
  • To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

  • The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  • Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

    Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press
  • If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

    Success   Teaching   Data  
  • If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.

  • Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.

  • How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

    Eberhard Arnold (1997). “God's Revolution: Justice, Community, and the Coming Kingdom”, p.137, The Plough Publishing House
  • I go to a church here in New Jersey that is just a very exciting place, and I just love to be there on Sunday morning - I just sit there in a pew with my wife, that's all I do, but I'm very much a part of that congregation. We've got a fantastic rector,she brings in people from places like the United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota, where you've got good teaching, and our people are being introduced to great material and they really respond. They're able to believe without crossing their fingers. And I think that's a real step forward.

    Morning   Real   Teaching  
    Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com
  • Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

    Education   Men   Balance  
    Horace Mann (1872). “Annual Reports on Education”, p.669
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