Quotes about teach
teacher moving kids
Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, I’m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isn’t just realistic - it’s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people. Alfie Kohn
teaching taught students
Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.
teacher classroom educator
Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.
teacher talking listening
In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.
teacher research generations
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing. Alfred Adler
teacher fighting principles
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
teacher communication adventure
There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach in importance the communication of what mathematics is really about, of where it is going, and of where it currently stands with respect to the specific branch of it being taught. What really matters is the communication of the spirit of mathematics. It is a spirit that is active rather than contemplative-a spirit of disciplined search for adventures of the intellect. Only as adventurer can really tell of adventures.
teacher children school
An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that a child who enters school already discouraged regains his self-confidence through his school and his teacher. This goes hand in hand with the vocation of the educator, for education is possible only with children who look hopefully and joyfully upon the future.
teaching men opposites
In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites. Andrew Greeley
teacher new-york inspiration
The greatest inspiration I draw upon is, is this city (New York) and riding the subway and watching people and I find that's kind of like the best, the best acting teacher. You know, I wonder, like people who have huge celebrity, sometimes I feel bad, should this be one of their methods 'cause I don't know how they can observe life anymore, because they become the observed. So, I, I appreciate that New York can still do that. Amy Ryan
teacher mean eye
I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if you have just a really good teacher, it's inspiring. I certainly use, in my work, I mean, I used to rely heavily on imagery. I was obsessed with this photograph that was in the NY Times of a fish engulfing a smaller fish and this smaller fish had this look in its eyes; it knew what was about to happen and, I don't know how they ever captured such an image, but I've used that for a play I (did). It's called "Saved."
teacher book people
I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful. Anthony Bourdain
teacher crazy teaching
Great teachers are usually a little crazy. Andy Rooney
teacher teaching subjects
The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.
teacher jobs hero
Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
teacher arbitrary matter
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
teacher people literature
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
teacher jesus believe
My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead. Andy Stanley
teacher book school
The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson. Andy Warhol
teacher class sound
I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher. Andre Dubus
teacher heart leader
Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls. Ann Richards
teaching waiting teach
I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had. Ann Patchett
teaching faces looks
When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing. Anant Agarwal
teacher people
People who don't count won't count. Anatole France
teaching fire vanity
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
teacher home goofy
I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher. Alton Brown
teacher school years
I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life. Anne Carson
teacher trying unions
I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union... Andres Segovia
teacher guitar effort
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
teaching damage-control fire
This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire. Chuck Palahniuk
teacher car people
you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.
teacher fighting path
The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.
teacher plato soul
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.