Great Teaching Quotes
The best sayings about Great Teaching that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
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Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
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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.
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What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
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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.
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The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
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Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
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Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
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Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.
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We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid...it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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.
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.
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Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
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Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
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