Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dewey

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

John Dewey

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

First, my congratulations to Yale on their success this year. The more film we watched, the more we realized what a good lacrosse team they were. They don't have any weaknesses. We told the guys all week long, we're going to have to roll up our sleeves and work hard to get this one. Congrats to them for their season.

We can't be satisfied as a team. We have one goal in mind right now and it's the next game. We want to get to the championship. We have to come out in practice and get after each other. There can't be any letdowns, we have to keep going.

John Denver

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

John Dewey

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

John Dewey

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

John Dewey

That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.

John Dewey

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

John Dewey

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.

John Dewey

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

John Dewey

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

John Dewey

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

John Dewey

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

John Dewey

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

John Dewey

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

John Dewey

Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.

John Dewey

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

John Dewey

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

John Dewey

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

John Dewey

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

John Dewey

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

John Dewey

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

John Calipari

I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

John Calipari

All the teams you have have different personalities, and you kind of want it.

John Calipari

If my team won a national title and no one got drafted, I'd be disappointed.

John Calipari

The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.

John Calipari

I would enjoy the fact that I had a team that won a national title, but I would be disappointed that none of the kids got drafted because that's not how it's supposed to work.

John Calipari

When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning.

John Calvin

If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.

John Calvin

The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and teaching, to ask every good thing from [God], and, when it is received, ascribe it to him. For how can the idea of God enter your mind without instantly giving rise to the thought, that since you are his workmanship, you are bound, by the very law of creation, to submit to his authority?-\-\that your life is due to him?-\-\that whatever you do ought to have reference to him.

Johan Santana

In order for you to win a game, a lot of things have to go right. Your team has to win. Your team has to perform. When you talk about striking out people or ERA, that's personal stuff and where you show people what kind of pitcher you are.

Johan Santana

I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.