Quotes about teach
teacher leader firsts
Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business. John Wooden
teacher thinking leader
Not everyone is equipped to be a leader, but in a sense, everyone is a leader to someone, even though you're not equipped. I think parents are a leader to youngsters, teacher are leaders, coaches are leaders, businessmen are leaders. John Wooden
teaching learning winning
Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is. John Wooden
teaching thinking important
There are little details in everything you do, and if you get away from any one of the little details, you're not teaching the thing as a whole. For it is little things which, together, make the whole. This, I think, is extremely important. John Wooden
teacher order may
The coach must never forget that he is, first of all, a teacher. He must come (be present), see (diagnose), and conquer (correct). He must continuously be exploring for ways to improve himself in order that he may improve others and welcome every person and everything that maybe helpful to him. John Wooden
teacher squad important
The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all. John Wooden
teacher responsibility player
Since the most important responsibility of a coach in regard to the actual playing of the game is to teach his players properly and effectively to execute the various fundamentals of the game, he is first of all a teacher. John Wooden
teacher book teaching
It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves. John Wooden
teacher glad
I'm glad I was a teacher. John Wooden
teacher firsts coaches
The coach is first of all a teacher. John Wooden
teaching thinking teacher-appreciation
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. John Wooden
teaching believe responsibility
Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting, teaching and coaching are the two most important professions in the world. John Wooden
teacher teaching law
When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who do not have any teaching background. A coach is nothing more than a teacher. I used to encourage anyone who wanted to coach to get a degree in teaching so they could apply those principles to athletics. John Wooden
teaching complaining literature
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. John Ruskin
teacher book reading
Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him. Mortimer Adler
teaching agreement mind
... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught. Mortimer Adler
teacher book absent
Books are absent teachers. Mortimer Adler
teacher book mean
If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself. Mortimer Adler
teacher teaching learning
The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students. Mortimer Adler
teacher memories teaching
Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching. Mortimer Adler
teacher mind lectures
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either. Mortimer Adler
teacher memories discovery
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher. Mortimer Adler
teacher new-york voice
I used to audition for musicals when I was in New York before I moved to L.A., but I couldn't quite hit a certain note, so I saw a teacher in L. A. who helped me get better at it. She showed me how to use a different part of my voice. You are never too old. Missi Pyle
teacher taught students
The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow. Paulo Freire
teacher educator duty
The educator has the duty of not being neutral. Paulo Freire
teacher teaching taught
Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning. Paulo Freire
teacher teaching people
Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively rational, or whatever else, he/she will not pass through the classroom without leaving his or her mark on the students. Paulo Freire
teacher self preparation
Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history. Paulo Freire
teacher teaching taught
... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught. Paulo Freire
teaching people needs
I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention. Paulo Freire
teacher reflection reality
Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to know it critically, but in the task of re-creating that knowledge. As they attain this knowledge of reality through common reflection and action, they discover themselves as its permanent re-creators. Paulo Freire
teacher ignorance opposites
In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence. Paulo Freire
teacher political society
... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner. Paulo Freire